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Vatosoa is an award-winning advocate for protecting Madagascar's coastlines and their wealth of resources for the local communities.

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Meet the Community-led Conservation Advocate Working to Protect Madagascar's Coasts

Leafcutter ants can be found across Central and South America. They build gigantic, subterranean nests with complex societies. (Chip Clark, Smithsonian)

National Museum of Natural History

Thinking of Eating Cicadas? Here are Six Other Tasty Insects to Try Too

From Insects, their way and means of living. Artwork by R. E. Snodgrass

Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage

Cicada Folklore, or Why We Don’t Mind Billions of Burrowing Bugs at Once

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Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

Intriguing Items from the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives’ Adopt-a-Book Program

Conservator Jiro Ueda positions the handscroll prior to reflectance imaging spectroscopy. A large camera mounted above his head captures images through a hole in the table

National Museum of Asian Art

Behind the Scenes: Imaging A Japanese Handscroll

On June 3 live from Panama, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute staff share their ground-breaking research on tropical forests and marine ecosystems.

Smithsonian Associates

Live from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and 26 Other Smithsonian Programs Streaming in June

A 17-year Brood X cicada.

National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute

Will 17-year Cicadas Be a Buffet or Big Disturbance for Birds?

Coral reef health is an important indicator of the ocean’s well-being. Scientists can study corals to learn more about how climate change is affecting the oceans. (Wise Hok Wai Lum, CC-BY-SA-4.0)

National Museum of Natural History

DNA Makes Waves in the Fight to Save Coral Reefs

Plate from Conchology, or, The natural history of shells. London :W. Miller,[1811]. (Biodiversity Heritage Library, Smithsonian Libraries and Archives).

Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

Discover the World’s Largest Biodiversity Library

인삼주 Insam-ju is a ginseng liquor made by preserving ginseng in alcohol above thirty proof. Korean people often make insam-ju at home and take a shot daily for its health benefits. It is also shared with special guests and is often paired with samgyetang (ginseng chicken soup). (Photo by Grace Dahye Kwon)

Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage

How Ginseng Connects Me to the Roots of My Korean American Community

Researchers study burial sites like the Falcon Necropolis at Quesna to learn more about ancient Egyptian culture and biodiversity. The site is protected by the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. (Joanne Rowland)

National Museum of Natural History

Mummified Shrew Discovery Unearths Ancient Egypt’s Wetter Climate

Alice Tetsuko Kono in her Women's Army Corps uniform, around 1943 (NMAH)

National Museum of American History

Why Japanese American Alice Tetsuko Kono Joined the WAC During World War II

The National Zoo education team created an interactive, virtual field trip experience for 600 D.C. Public Schools kindergarteners to learn more about rainforest habitats, connecting to a children’s book they had read together. Here, the facilitator introduces students to a rainforest resident, the roseate spoonbill. (Smithsonian’s National Zoo)

Smithsonian Education

Imaginations Run Wild with a Virtual Visit to the National Zoo

Zircons are the oldest minerals in the world and come in colors like the rich blue above. Researchers have now used these gemstones to identify when modern plate tectonics began. (Ken Larsen)

National Museum of Natural History

New Study on Zircons Finds Plate Tectonics Began 3.6 Billion Years Ago

This black metal suitcase belonged to Iku Tsuchiya. It went with her to Tanforan Assembly Center, then to the Topaz camp, and back home to San Leandro, California. (NMAH)

National Museum of American History

What Happened to Japanese American Houses During Incarceration?

Oree Originol, Justice for Our Lives, 2014-Present, 78 digital images, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Patricia Tobacco Forrester Endowment, 2020.51A-MM, © 2014, Oree Originol. Photo of Installation by Albert Ting.

Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery

Protest and Remembrance: Chicanx Artists Confront Police Brutality

Through research on living and preserved fungus-farming ants, entomologists are learning more about the insects’ deep connection to their environment and how that relationship might evolve in response to a changing climate. (Smithsonian)

National Museum of Natural History

How Fungus-Farming Ants Fertilize Climate Research

(Photo courtesy of Masatsu “Masa” Kawamoto collection, Division of Work and Industry, Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History)

Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage

Cowboys in the Tropics: A History of the Hawaiian Paniolo

While held at the Poston camp in Arizona, Yasu Takei made this one-thousand-stitch sash to bestow good luck and protection to her son Jim Kuichi Takei, who was fighting with the 442nd in Europe. (NMAH)

National Museum of American History

Memories of Japanese Incarceration Camps Remind Us That Our Freedoms Are Fragile

Photomicrograph of wood specimen, circa 1890s, by L. Bernie Gallaher, SIA Acc. 11-007, MNH-4701. (Smithsonian Institution Archives)

Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

Meet the Smithsonian's First Woman Photographer

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