Personal Perspectives

Ocean Sampling Day – Taking the Pulse of the World’s Oceans

If you are a bird watcher you have probably heard of the Christmas Bird Count. The...

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Ice-Loving Seals and the Loss of Sea Ice

The threat that climate change poses to polar bears has received a lot of...

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Signs of a Recovering Harbor

For more than two centuries, Boston Harbor has been a dumping ground. In 1773,...

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Smithsonian Scientists Describe a 'New' Fossil Whale

Monodontids, the group of whales that includes the belugas and narwhals swimming...