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First Vertebrate Species Description with a DNA Barcode
In December 1982, Benjamin Victor, founder of the coral reef research initiative Ocean Science Foundation, was diving in a reef just offshore of a Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute field station when he scooped up an adult goby. The fish looked slightly different from its Atlantic goby kin,...
September 07, 2007 |
By Megan Gambino
The Berkshires
The hills are alive with the sounds of Tanglewood plus modern dance, the art of Norman Rockwell and a literary tradition that goes back to Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville
May 2007 |
By Jonathan Kandell
Rain Forest Rebel
In the Amazon, researchers documenting the ways of native peoples join forces with an embattled chief to stop illegal loggers and developers from destroying the earth's most precious wilderness
March 2007 |
By Joshua Hammer
Volcanic Lightning
As sparks flew during the eruption of Mount St. Augustine in Alaska, scientists made some new discoveries
February 01, 2007 |
By Eric Jaffe
Antarctica Erupts!
A trip to Mount Erebus yields a rare, close-up look at one of the world's weirdest geological marvels
December 2006 |
By Laura Helmuth
The Sound of Hoofs
In a breathtaking spectacle, wildebeest by the millions are on the move this month in the Serengeti
June 2006 |
By Virginia Morell
Resurrecting Pompeii
A new exhibition brings the doomed residents of Pompeii and Herculaneum vividly to life
February 2006 |
By Doug Stewart
Rising from the Ashes
The eruption of Mount St. Helens 25 years ago this month was no surprise. But the speedy return of wildlife to the area is astonishing
May 2005 |
By David B. Williams
Out of Time
Less than a decade after their first contact with the outside world, the volatile Korubo of the Amazon still live in almost total isolation. Their fiercest champion, Indian tracker Sydney Possuelo, is trying to keep their world intact. But how long can he, and they, hold out?
April 2005 |
By Paul Raffaele
A Mine of Its Own
Where miners used to dig, an endangered bat now flourishes, highlighting a new use for abandoned mineral sites
May 2004 |
By Douglas H. Chadwick
Finally, the Top of the World
A witness to the first ascent of Mount Everest 50 years ago this month recalls Edmund Hillary's aplomb, Tenzing Norgay's grace and other glories of the "last earthly adventure"
May 2003 |
By Jan Morris
Bear Trouble
Only hundreds of miles from the North Pole, industrial chemicals threaten the Arctic's greatest predator
April 2003 |
By Marla Cone
Ice Capades
Alaska's husband-and-wife team of avalanche experts work to save lives all winter, then take to their kayaks in summer
March 2003 |
By Michael Ryan
Subterranean Surprises
Scientists are discovering that caves more complex than we ever imagined may yield vast riches about the origins of life
October 2002 |
By Evan Hadingham
Blast from the Past
The eruption of Mount Tambora killed thousands, plunged much of the world into a frightful chill and offers lessons for today
July 2002 |
By Robert Evans
Mountain of the Lord
Beyond the war zone, Mount Sinai remains a refuge in a landscape of strife
June 2002 |
By Robert Wernick
Crystal Moonbeams
A pair of Mexican miners stumble upon a room filled with what could be the world's largest crystals
April 2002 |
By John F. Ross
Fire and Brimstone
A long-outdated approach to sulfur mining sends hundreds of Javanese workers deep into the crater of an active volcano
December 2001 |
By John F. Ross
Geology That's Alive
Volcanologist Richard Fiske loves fieldwork most of all--when he's on the job, the Earth moves
December 1997 |
By Michael Kernan
Phenomena, Comment and Notes
Life not only thrives in the heat and violence of Earth's submarine volcanoes, it may have started there. And at least one other body in the Solar System just might have eruptions on its ocean floor
May 1997 |
By John P. Wiley Jr.
