Community Reforestation: Action-Based Participatory Science
Implementing reforestation projects to encourage forest protection and recovery.
Community Reforestation: Action-Based Participatory Science
Implementing reforestation projects to encourage forest protection and recovery.
Marine fossils unearth story about Panama’s deep past
New fossil mammals in Caribbean Panama suggest ongoing marine interchange during the final stages of formation of the isthmus.
Bezos Earth Fund grants $12 million to Smithsonian to support major forest carbon project
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.
A tropical perspective on marine conservation
Multidisciplinary researchers from the global tropics published a new paper suggesting that the key to ocean conservation may lie with the tropical majority.
Climate change: causes, effects and predictions
Almost everything we do in some way contributes to climate change.
Smithsonian honors STRI’s Joe Wright
Plant ecologist S. Joseph Wright received an award for his illustrious career at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, in Panama.
STRI special events, May 2023
Official inauguration of the BCI100, MUCI Exhibit Opening, Remembering Richard Cooke and more.
Friendly or Dangerous? All about spiders
Discover the fascinating world of spiders in Panama!
Scientists from the Global South innovate to track ongoing amphibian pandemic
The new diagnostic test showed comparable or even better results than the gold-standard assay recommended for the diagnosis of chytridiomycosis.
Scientists catch the suspect in long-term marine murder mystery
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.