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Lesson Plan
Where Have All the Glaciers Gone?
Students will describe how climate change is affecting sea ice, vegetation, and...
Mon, 08/08/2011 - 16:33
Lesson Plan
Biomes: Wild Arctic
This lesson investigates how sea ice is critical to the plants and animals that...
Tue, 07/19/2011 - 16:03
Personal Perspectives
Thirty Days to Submission: How I Made a Video for Ocean180
How do you explain a scientific paper in three minutes or less? What if you were...
July 2014
Article
The Cultural Icescapes of the Arctic
Sea ice is typically viewed as the domain of physical and natural scientists, the...
March 2014
Personal Perspectives
Ice-Loving Seals and the Loss of Sea Ice
The threat that climate change poses to polar bears has received a lot of...
September 2013
Article
The Oil Spill, Two Years Later
Two years ago last week, on April 20, 2010, an explosion on the oil-drilling rig...
April 2012
Personal Perspectives
Arctic Sea Ice: A New Low?
At a recent staff meeting a Smithsonian colleague mentioned that one of his...
September 2011
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
audio
Riftia Worms: One Species at a Time
In this episode of the Podcast of Life, host Ari Daniel Shapiro dives deep to...
Mon, 06/14/2010 - 16:31
audio
Polar Bears: One Species at a Time
The Encyclopedia of Life brings us another installment of the podcast, One...
Tue, 06/28/2011 - 14:25
audio
Greenland Shark: One Species at a Time
Scientists know the Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus) moves slowly in the...
Tue, 08/12/2014 - 08:35
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