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Swimmers brave the waters in the shadow of a coal-fired power plant. Coal plants like this one emit CO2 into our atmosphere which is warming the planet and altering the chemistry of the ocean.
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Coal plant

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One ocean. More than 100 moored buoys gather data on the single, contiguous, body of water that encircles the globe.
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Buoy Collects Data on the Open Ocean

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A thick stand of mangroves with tangled roots lines an island creek in Panama.
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Caribbean Mangroves

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A nudibranch showing a closeup of their fleshy, tentacle-like growths, called cerata.
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Aeolid Nudibranch Defense

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A crown-of-thorns starfish in the Marianas Islands.
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Mystery Photo: Prickly Puzzler on the Reef

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Crocheted corals from the Smithsonian Community Reef group on Flickr.
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Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Forms

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This photo provides a small glimpse of the amazing variety of whale skulls and skeletons available for study at the Smithsonian.
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Whale Collections

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Members of the Squamish Nation paddle to a 1997 festival celebrating Native canoe arts.
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Celebrating Traditional Canoes

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Workers prepare to hoist the model of Phoenix, a North Atlantic Right Whale, into position above the exhibit hall floor in the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC.
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Preparing to Hoist the Right Whale Model

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Giant squid have eight arms but use their two long feeding tentacles to seize prey.
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Giant Squid Anatomy

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Sea anemones, brittle stars, and sea urchins make a home on mangrove roots.
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Mangrove Roots Up Close

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Corals, sponges, and algae are the major components of most coral reef communities as shown in this picture.
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Coral Reef on Gangga Island, Indonesia

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