A new coral menace
Dead zones may threatencoral reefs worldwide
Marzo 20, 2017
A coral die-off in Panama was likely due to oxygen depletion instead of the usual culprits of warming, pollution, overfishing and acidification.
A coral die-off in Panama was likely due to oxygen depletion instead of the usual culprits of warming, pollution, overfishing and acidification.
Satellite tracking technology reveals the massive ranges of breeding areas of humpback whales in the Pacific Ocean.
Deployed from Greenland to Australia, caterpillar decoys were attacked the closer they were to sea level and the nearer they were to the tropics.
A new study points directly links healthy coral reefs to healthy populations of these brightly colored fishes.
In a remote Bolivian forest, a Smithsonian researcher discovers the first beetle species that live on orchids.
After a half century of pioneering research on evolutionary developmental biology and induction into the National Academy of Sciences, a long-time Smithsonian scientist retires.
A Smithsonian emeritus scientist takes a field trip to some of Panama’s most important known marine fossil deposits for a quick lesson the age of the Ithsmus of Panama.
Some beetles have a rather inventive, if unsavory, way of fending off predators.
My colleagues and I are interested to understand the main factors that affect the maintenance of local arthropod biodiversity in tropical rainforests. Our research program has several components. We have studied insect-plant interactions, the host-specificity of...
Fossil reefs from around the Caribbean show how biologically rich these ecosystems once were — and provide goalposts for conservationists hoping to restore them.