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Community Reforestation: Action-Based Participatory Science

July 31, 2023

Implementing reforestation projects to encourage forest protection and recovery.

STRI Panama

Marine fossils unearth story about Panama’s deep past

July 12, 2023

New fossil mammals in Caribbean Panama suggest ongoing marine interchange during the final stages of formation of the isthmus.

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

Bezos Earth Fund grants $12 million to Smithsonian to support major forest carbon project

July 06, 2023

A generous grant to support international partnerships and training will enable GEO-TREES to offer the free, online data needed to verify the amount of carbon stored in complex forests worldwide, in real time.

STRI Panama

A tropical perspective on marine conservation

July 06, 2023

Multidisciplinary researchers from the global tropics published a new paper suggesting that the key to ocean conservation may lie with the tropical majority.

STRI Webinars

Climate change: causes, effects and predictions

June 30, 2023

Almost everything we do in some way contributes to climate change.

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

Smithsonian honors STRI’s Joe Wright

June 29, 2023

Plant ecologist S. Joseph Wright received an award for his illustrious career at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, in Panama.

STRI Panama

STRI special events, May 2023

June 01, 2023

Official inauguration of the BCI100, MUCI Exhibit Opening, Remembering Richard Cooke and more.

STRI Panama

Friendly or Dangerous? All about spiders

May 30, 2023

Discover the fascinating world of spiders in Panama!

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

Scientists from the Global South innovate to track ongoing amphibian pandemic

May 24, 2023

The new diagnostic test showed comparable or even better results than the gold-standard assay recommended for the diagnosis of chytridiomycosis.

STRI Panama

Scientists catch the suspect in long-term marine murder mystery

May 12, 2023

Murder mysteries may take decades to resolve, especially if they take place under the sea. The massive deaths of sea urchins in the Caribbean in the 1980’s is one of them. But only after a new killing spree erupted in 2022, could scientists corner the probable killer.

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