On Aug. 5, more than 100 attendees gathered on Hurricane Island to join in a Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for Maine’s newest field research station, a carbon-negative facility for marine science on Penobscot Bay and one of two offshore research stations.
In the air, on land and in the sea, the Smithsonian is building new tools for resilient ecosystems innovative approaches and technologies that will provide knowledge and open up avenues to understand and protect our planet.
Often maligned and feared as creepy nightmare critters, spiders in reality are some of the most environmentally friendly pest regulators. They actively feed on flies, moths, mosquitoes and roaches, eliminating parasites and many other vectors of dise
Less than 3% of the world’s oceans are currently protected. Conservationists say that figure needs to hit 30% to prevent major diversity loss and climate change. But marine conservation can be tricky: local and Indigenous communities often rely on fishing for their livelihood, and blocking off certain areas of the water with no-take zones can […]