October 30, 2024
A new study finds that leatherback sea turtles tend to migrate rather than forage when chlorophyll, primary productivity, and sea surface temperature levels are lower.
October 29, 2024
Q?Bus visits, Bird Friendly at the ShowColate fair, Bat night at Gamboa, and more.
October 25, 2024
First experimental comparison of the effects of temperature and oxygen deprivation on three key Caribbean coral species shows that nightly low oxygen tips the balance of species survival away from tall, elegant, reef-building corals, towards lower, weedy corals, simplifying coral communities.
October 10, 2024
Grant Supports the Smithsonian’s Leadership Role in Bringing the Global GEO-TREES System Online
October 04, 2024
To create a global standard for forest carbon storage, we need boots on the ground. The GEO-TREES system of forest plots offers this immediately: establishing a single method for forest carbon estimation at existing on-the-ground forest study sites around the world.
September 30, 2024
This research expands knowledge about the archaeological ceramics of the Gran Cocle culture at the Cerro Juan Diaz Archaeological Site, which spans a period of occupation from 200 BC to 1550 AD and is one of the largest pre-Hispanic communities in central Panama.
September 30, 2024
Smithsonian opens the LepiDome, Congratulations Lisa Barnett, Congratulations Rachel Page, Exhibition by Irene Kopelman, Human-wildlife coexistence and more!
September 25, 2024
Over the last two years, staff at the Ukrainian Bat Rehabilitation Center have worked to save bats from the dangers of the Russian full-scale invasion. Now, they join researchers at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute to study bat behavior in Panama.
September 13, 2024
Regrowing tropical forests emit significantly lower soil carbon dioxide than cattle pastures.
