Water
Navigating Siberia
A 2,300-mile boat trip down the Lena River, one of the last great unspoiled waterways, is a journey into Russia's dark pastand perhaps its future as well
September 2005 |
By Jeffrey Tayler
Baked Alaska
A unique study documents the disappearance of Alaska's glaciers, blamed on global warming
August 2005 |
By Laura Helmuth
Rapture of the Deep
Pennekamp State Park—the nation's first coral-reef santcuary—protects a thriving ecosystem beneath the waves
April 2005 |
By Marialisa Calta
Medicine from the Sea
From slime to sponges, scientists are plumbing the ocean's depths for new medications to treat cancer, pain and other ailments
May 01, 2004 |
By Kevin Krajick
Titanic Sank This Morning
An artifact from the doomed ocean liner evokes that catastrophic night in April 1912
April 2004 |
By Owen Edwards
Iceberg Wrangler
When a million-ton iceberg threatens your $5 billion oil platform, who you gonna call? Jerome Baker
February 2003 |
By Michael Ryan
Pieces of History
Raised from the deep, the Monitor's turret reveals a bounty of new details about the ship's violent end
November 2002 |
By Wendy Mitman Clarke
Close Encounters With the Old Sow
Local expert Robert Godfrey relates true life-and-death stories of people sucked into the Old Sow whirlpool.
August 2001 |
By Smithsonian magazine
In the Eye of the Whirlpool
From the mythical Charybdis to the monster Maelstrom, these watery gyres thrill and chill us
August 2001 |
By Simon Winchester
Master of the Deep
Before Smithsonian scientists do underwater research, Michael Lang makes them seaworthy.
March 2001 |
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.
