Abhishyant Kidangoor

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Abhishyant is a staff writer with a focus on conservation technology.      

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No animals harmed as wildlife specimen collection goes digital in 3D

Abhishyant Kidangoor 30 Nov 2023
Rubber latex collecting into a container in a rubber plantation in Thailand. Image by Eleanor W-T via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Growing rubber drives more deforestation than previously thought, study finds

Abhishyant Kidangoor 22 Nov 2023
A male Allen's hummingbird (Selasphorus sasin).

New AI model gives bird’s-eye view of avian distribution at vast scale

Abhishyant Kidangoor 8 Nov 2023
Monarch butterflies

Betting on biodiversity: Q&A with Superorganism’s Kevin Webb & Tom Quigley

Abhishyant Kidangoor 3 Nov 2023
The platforms can carry environmental sensors and could be useful tools to disperse sensors in far-flung areas.

Origami-inspired sensor platforms tumble like leaves to study forests

Abhishyant Kidangoor 17 Oct 2023
A leopard in Primorsky Krai region in the Russian Far East caught on camera.

Taking the global pulse of biodiversity monitoring: Q&A with Andrew Gonzalez

Abhishyant Kidangoor 11 Oct 2023
Satellite image of Argentina's Patagonia region.

Applications open for Airbus’s ‘Satellites for Biodiversity Award’

Abhishyant Kidangoor 6 Oct 2023
Jan Gogarten and Christina Lynggaard

Swab a leaf and find a species. Or 50, thanks to eDNA

Abhishyant Kidangoor 3 Oct 2023
A chestnut-mandibled toucan in the rain.

Climate change detectable in daily rainfall patterns, deep-learning model finds

Abhishyant Kidangoor 27 Sep 2023
A Mojave Desert tortoise with an iButton attached to it.

How hot are the desert tortoises getting? iButtons help find the answer

Abhishyant Kidangoor 20 Sep 2023
Arctic sea ice.

Sensing tech used in oil pipelines can also track Arctic sea ice, study shows

Abhishyant Kidangoor 11 Sep 2023
Eastern bluebirds

With fewer birds seen on farms, scientists try listening for them

Abhishyant Kidangoor 8 Sep 2023
A red fox.

In the chain of species extinctions, AI can predict the next link to break

Abhishyant Kidangoor 22 Aug 2023
Gowanus E-Waste Warehouse and Prop Library

From grassroots to government, Singapore takes lead in tackling e-waste

Abhishyant Kidangoor 21 Aug 2023
The team at the Giraffe Conservation Foundation attempts to put a tag on a reticulated giraffe in Namibia.

Where are the giraffes hiding? Predictive tracking tech points the way

Abhishyant Kidangoor 17 Aug 2023
EarthRanger Director Jes Lefcourt testing EarthRanger Mobile in northern Kenya.

Wildlife management platform EarthRanger goes mobile with new app

Abhishyant Kidangoor 10 Aug 2023
Greville's bolete, which has a mycorrhizal relationship with larch trees.

Machine learning helps researchers identify underground fungal networks

Abhishyant Kidangoor 4 Aug 2023
Tridi Oasis recycles PET bottles to produce rPET flakes which could be used to make packing materials and textiles.

Funding circularity: Investing in Asia’s circular economy business models

Abhishyant Kidangoor 1 Aug 2023
Debbie Saunders

‘Immense potential’ in tech: Q&A with Wildlife Drones CEO Debbie Saunders

Abhishyant Kidangoor 31 Jul 2023
A leatherback hatchling.

Tag team effort brings tech to aid leatherback turtle conservation

Abhishyant Kidangoor 14 Jul 2023
An Asian honey bee on a yellow flower.

Scientists hope to tech the heck out of eDNA sampling with drones, robots

Abhishyant Kidangoor 7 Jul 2023
A little owl (Athene noctua).

Air pollution sensors found to store crucial biodiversity data

Abhishyant Kidangoor 23 Jun 2023
Spot, the robotic dog, is equipped with cameras and audio recorders.

Meet the tech projects competing for a $10m prize to save rainforests

Abhishyant Kidangoor 15 Jun 2023
Coral reef, ocean, mangroves, and forest.

New digital tool maps blue carbon ecosystems in high resolution

Abhishyant Kidangoor 12 Jun 2023
Kevin Marriott with a drone.

Competing for rainforest conservation: Q&A with XPRIZE’s Kevin Marriott

Abhishyant Kidangoor 2 Jun 2023
A black-backed woodpecker in a Parker 2 Fire area in Modoc County, California.

Woodpeckers for fire recovery? A new online tool tells you how

Abhishyant Kidangoor 29 May 2023
Cows.

A Twitter bot tracks meat production in the Brazilian Amazon

Abhishyant Kidangoor 19 May 2023
A flock of snow geese.

Feathered forecast: Tech tools comb weather data for bird migrations

Abhishyant Kidangoor 20 Apr 2023

Return of the GEDI: Space-based, forest carbon-mapping laser array saved

Abhishyant Kidangoor 17 Apr 2023
A researcher takes an ultrasound reading from a whale shark.

Uterine implants and underwater ultrasounds aim to demystify shark births

Abhishyant Kidangoor 7 Apr 2023
A squirrel and a bird share a bird feeder.

Bioacoustics in your backyard: Q&A with conservation technologist Topher White

Abhishyant Kidangoor 31 Mar 2023
A pair of the critically endangered Hainan gibbons.

To save Hainan gibbons, Earth’s rarest primate, experts roll out the big tech

Abhishyant Kidangoor 27 Mar 2023

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