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Why the Littlest Fish Matter a Whole Lot
Top predators along the California coast are having a rough year. Recently starving...
May 2015
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Taking the Temperature of the Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle
The Kemp’s ridley is a “riddler” among sea turtles. Although the species was...
May 2014
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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
Personal Perspectives
4,000 Years of Marine History through the Eyes of a Seabird
Most people have never heard of the Hawaiian petrel, an endangered, crow-sized...
May 2013
Personal Perspectives
Field Notes from the East African Coast
We began this journey three months ago, a team of scientists and filmmakers...
April 2013
Personal Perspectives
Seafood for Thought
Sunday, November 21 marks World Fisheries Day, an annual occasion observed in many...
November 2010
Saving Albatross Lives with Bird Scaring Lines
Soaring high above the open Southern Ocean, a snowy, white wandering albatross...
August 2017
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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
Shark Snapshot - Saving sharks with an underwater photoshoot
Sharks make headlines, but we don’t actually know a whole lot about...
July 2017
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The Blue Halo – Barbuda and Beyond
Papa Joe, the oldest fisherman on the Caribbean island of Barbuda, remembers when...
August 2015
Archaeologists Study Early Whaling Community in Quebec, Canada
For over a decade, Smithsonian's Arctic Studies Center archaeologist, William...
September 2011