Profile: Rachel Collin
Is there an evolutionary point of no return?
Abril 27, 2012
A Chilean sea snail appears to have tried two forms of development and decided to turn back before it was too late.
A Chilean sea snail appears to have tried two forms of development and decided to turn back before it was too late.
A five-year, $2-million grant will help test the hypothesis that rare trees are more susceptible to pathogens than common trees on Barro Colorado Island.
Some beetles have a rather inventive, if unsavory, way of fending off predators.
Panama’s infamous canal grass rises from the ashes of fire much faster than trees, complicating reforestation efforts.
Drawing on 30-plus years of research in the Panama Canal Watershed, Smithsonian scientist Jefferson Hall releases an illustrated publication that will improve reforestation and help successfully restore forests with 64 species of Neotropical trees.
As part of the Smithsonian’s program to save frogs from an extinction-causing disease, the Punta Culebra Nature Center offers an exclusive glimpse at some of the amphibians we and our partner institutions are trying to save.
How will tropical forests respond to a warmer climate with higher atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations? By growing plants in geodesic domes, Smithsonian scientist Klaus Winter is seeking answers.