Skip to main content
Smithsonian Institution
Language Search Smithsonian Ocean
Follow us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Follow us on Flickr Follow us on Tumbr
Donate

Smithsonian Ocean

Main Menu

  • Ocean Life
    • Marine Mammals
    • Sharks & Rays
    • Reptiles
    • Seabirds
    • Fish
    • Invertebrates
    • Plankton
    • Plants & Algae
    • Microbes
  • Ecosystems
    • Coral Reefs
    • Deep Sea
    • Coasts & Shallow Water
    • Poles
    • Census of Marine Life
  • Planet Ocean
    • Tides & Currents
    • Waves, Storms & Tsunamis
    • The Seafloor
    • Temperature & Chemistry
  • Through Time
    • Ancient Seas
    • Extinctions
    • Evolution
    • The Anthropocene
  • Conservation
    • Fishing
    • Pollution
    • Habitat Destruction
    • Invasive Species
    • Acidification
    • Climate Change
    • Gulf Oil Spill
    • Solutions & Success Stories
    • Get Involved
  • Human Connections
    • Books, Film & The Arts
    • Recreation
    • Seafood
    • Exploration
    • History & Cultures
    • Careers
  • At The Museum
  • Educators
Menu

Search

Showing results for "All"
Filter

Content type

  • Article (10)

Article Type

  • (-) Article (10)
  • Personal Perspectives (9)
  • Interactive (1)

Topics

  • Ancient Seas (1)
  • Animal Behavior (3)
  • At The Museum (11)
  • Beaches (1)
  • Books, Film & The Arts (3)
  • Careers (2)
  • Climate Change (10)
  • Coasts & Shallow Water (5)
  • Conservation (3)
  • Coral Reefs (14)
  • Deep Sea (3)
  • Ecosystems (3)
  • Exploration (6)
  • Fish (4)
  • Fishing (4)
  • Food Web (7)
  • Genetics (2)
  • Get Involved (6)
  • Gulf Oil Spill (9)
  • History & Cultures (3)
  • Human Connections (1)
  • Ice (2)
  • Invasive Species (1)
  • Invertebrates (8)
  • Marine Mammals (4)
  • Ocean Life (4)
  • Planet Ocean (2)
  • Pollution (16)
  • Reptiles (2)
  • Seafood (2)
  • Sea Level (1)
  • Sharks & Rays (4)
  • Sights, Sounds & Games (2)
  • Solutions & Success Stories (4)
  • Technology (5)
  • Temperature & Chemistry (3)
  • The Anthropocene (2)
  • The Seafloor (3)
  • Through Time (1)
  • Tides & Currents (1)
  • Vents & Volcanoes (1)
  • (-) Evolution (3)
  • (-) Mangroves (1)
  • (-) Microbes (1)
  • (-) Plants & Algae (3)
  • (-) Poles (3)
  • (-) Waves, Storms & Tsunamis (1)

Tags

  • (-) Climate Change (3)
  • (-) Glaciers (2)
  • (-) Predation (3)
  • Algae (8)
  • Algae blooms (4)
  • Ancient sea life (3)
  • Apex predator (2)
  • Arctic (3)
  • Beaches (3)
  • Crabs, Shrimp & Relatives (4)
  • DNA barcoding (2)
  • Fisheries (2)
  • Fossils (5)
  • Geology (2)
  • Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (2)
  • Ice (3)
  • Mangroves (3)
  • Mussels, Oysters & Relatives (2)
  • National Museum of Natural History (3)
  • Native people (2)
  • Ocean Optimism (2)
  • Oil spills (2)
  • Paleobiology (2)
  • Phytoplankton (2)
  • Scientists at work (2)
  • Seagrass (4)
  • Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (3)
  • Smithsonian scientists (9)
  • Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (2)
  • Symbiosis (3)
  • Technology (2)
  • Under the microscope (3)
  • Whales (4)
Human activity is increasing in the Arctic marine environment due to climate change. To help the most vulnerable areas, the Global Marine Program of IUCN, along with partners, is convening a series of workshops aimed at enhancing ecosystem-based management and identifying biologically or ecologically important or vulnerable habitats. Burgerbukta, a bay in Svalbard, Norway, is being managed for ecosystem protection.
Article

What is the Sea Ice Minimum? (And Why Do We Care)

Envision the Arctic and an icy, white world comes to mind. Unlike Antarctica, which...
August 2019
the skull of a mosasaur
Article

Meals of the Mighty Mosasaur

Between 100 and 65 million years ago, at the time when dinosaurs reigned on land,...
November 2018
Sea otters floating on the surface of the ocean.
Article

Not Just Another Fuzzy Face

Who hasn’t grinned at the sight of a sea otter floating on its back while...
May 2017
Neptune grass (Posidonia oceanica) is a slow-growing and long-lived seagrass native to the Mediterranean.
Article

Bugs and Slugs: The Hidden Secret to Healthy Seagrasses

Slip into the water along a sheltered coast in nearly any part of the world and...
May 2015
A walrus sits on top of ice.
Article

The Cultural Icescapes of the Arctic

Sea ice is typically viewed as the domain of physical and natural scientists, the...
March 2014
A newly established black mangrove sits in a field of salt marsh near the northern limit of mangroves in Florida. Mangroves have been expanding near their northern limit in Florida and the expansion is linked to a reduction in the frequency of ex
Article

Finding Mangroves In Unexpected Places

Over the past several decades, Florida’s coastal wetlands have been changing....
February 2014
a colored shakemap from the M5.8 Virginia Earthquake depicts the shake range and epicenter of the earthquake
Article

A Guide to Earthquake Lesson Plans

It isn’t everyday that a magnitude 5.8 earthquake strikes the East Coast of the...
August 2011
A photo of a swimming Protanguilla palau, the newly discovered genus and species of eel
Article

Scientists Call New Eel Species A Living Fossil

Scientists at the Smithsonian and partnering organizations have discovered a...
August 2011
A narwhal breaches the surface, its tusk pointed to the sky
Article

Why a Tusk? The real-life unicorns of the sea and the tusks that make them famous

In the frigid Arctic Ocean, a mysterious toothed whale—the narwhal— resides...
August 2017
A view out of the tiny window of the Johnson-Sea-Link submersible.
Article

How Methane Fueled a Food Web after the Gulf Oil Spill

In August 1994, Mandy Joye dove to the deep sea in a submersible for the first...
January 2015
  • Sort By Relevance
  • A-Z
  • Z-A
  • Newest
  • Oldest

Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Ocean
Follow us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Follow us on Flickr Follow us on Tumbr
Contact Us

Explore

  • Ocean Life
  • Ecosystems
  • Planet Ocean
  • Through Time
  • Conservation
  • Human Connections
  • At The Museum
  • About
  • Media Archive
  • Terms of Use
  • Privacy

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Donate
  • Ocean Life
    • Marine Mammals
    • Sharks & Rays
    • Reptiles
    • Seabirds
    • Fish
    • Invertebrates
    • Plankton
    • Plants & Algae
    • Microbes
  • Ecosystems
    • Coral Reefs
    • Deep Sea
    • Coasts & Shallow Water
    • Poles
    • Census of Marine Life
  • Planet Ocean
    • Tides & Currents
    • Waves, Storms & Tsunamis
    • The Seafloor
    • Temperature & Chemistry
  • Through Time
    • Ancient Seas
    • Extinctions
    • Evolution
    • The Anthropocene
  • Conservation
    • Fishing
    • Pollution
    • Habitat Destruction
    • Invasive Species
    • Acidification
    • Climate Change
    • Gulf Oil Spill
    • Solutions & Success Stories
    • Get Involved
  • Human Connections
    • Books, Film & The Arts
    • Recreation
    • Seafood
    • Exploration
    • History & Cultures
    • Careers
  • At The Museum
  • Educators

Search Smithsonian Ocean