Ecology
A Coral Reef's Mass Spawning
Understanding how corals reproduce is critical to their survival; Smithsonian's Nancy Knowlton investigates the annual event
December 2009 |
By Megan Gambino
Our Imperiled Oceans: Victory at Sea
The world's largest protected area, established this year in the remote Pacific, points the way to restoring marine ecosystems
September 2008 |
By Christopher Pala
Arctic Dispatch: A Thaw in the Arctic Tundra
Researchers at the Toolik Field Station study thermokarst to understand the ecological effects of climate change
July 22, 2008 |
By Christine Dell’Amore
Arctic Dispatch: The Toolik Way of Life
Gourmet fare, live music and 24-hour Arctic summer sun make life in Toolik hard to beat
July 08, 2008 |
By Christine Dell’Amore
Arctic Dispatch: The Hike Up Jade Mountain
After a day of experiments and ongoing mosquito battles, Christine Dell’Amore enjoys the view from the top
July 03, 2008 |
By Christine Dell’Amore
Arctic Dispatch: Playing With Permafrost
The first field tests in the tundra look at the effects of nitrogen levels on permafrost
July 03, 2008 |
By Christine Dell’Amore
Arctic Dispatch: Reaching Toolik
Journalist Christine Dell’Amore travels to Alaska’s Toolik Field to observe the environmental changes occurring in the Arctic Circle
July 03, 2008 |
By Christine Dell’Amore
Arctic Dispatch: A Polar Bear Plunge
A trip to the oil-rich Prudhoe Bay region ends in an Arctic swim
July 03, 2008 |
By Christine Dell’Amore
Patricia Zaradic, Conservation Ecologist, Pennsylvania
The trouble with "videophilia"
April 2008 |
By Megan Gambino
Giant Footprint
How the world's 6.6 billion people threaten the health of the ecosystem
January 28, 2008 |
By Diana Parsell
Roots of the Sea
What mangroves give the world and why we can't afford to lose them
January 28, 2008 |
By Sarah Zielinski
Up in Smoke
Amazon research that has withstood thieves and arsonists now faces its greatest challenge
January 28, 2008 |
By Jess Blumberg
Interview: Margaret Lowman
Bugs in trees and kids in labs get their due in a new book by "Canopy Meg"
December 2006 |
By Marian Smith Holmes
Hazy Days In Our Parks
The air in many national wilderness wonderlands is getting worse. As officials debate controversial new rules to curb pollution, scientists find the sources are surprisingly far-flung
June 2005 |
By Charles Petit
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
Invasion of the Snakeheads
The voracious "Frankenfish" has turned up in the Potomac River, Lake Michigan and a California lake, sparking fears of an ecological Armageddon. But is the Asian import a monsteror the victim of monster hype?
February 2005 |
By Helen Fields
America's Rare Bird
A new biography tells how the foreign-born frontiersman became one of the 19th century's greatest wildlife artists and a patron saint of the ecology movement
December 01, 2004 |
By Richard Rhodes
Baywatch
Smithsonian scientists' study of the Chesapeake may benefit a wider world
August 2003 |
By Lawrence M. Small
Net Gains
A California biologist discovered a new insect species and then caught evolution in the act
October 2002 |
By Deborah Franklin
Prince of Tides
Before "ecology" became a buzzword, John Steinbeck preached that man is related to the whole thing
January 2002 |
By Bil Gilbert
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