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The purple-flowered crown of Dipteryx oleifera, one of the biggest trees on Barro Colorado Island, Panama, towers above the forest. Big trees may be most exposed to the effects of climate change: more frequent and severe drought, and the high winds and lightning of monster storms. (Evan Gora)

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

How Will the Biggest Tropical Trees Respond to Climate Change?

Participate in the City Nature Challenge by spotting and recording animals and plants in your city starting Apr 30. (Katja Schulz)

National Museum of Natural History

11 Free Natural History Programs Streaming in April

(Photo courtesy of Mariachi Reyna de Los Angeles)

Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage

The Quarter-Century Reign of Mariachi Reyna

Crimilda Pontes created several designs for the James Smithson Bicentennial in 1965, including what would become the Institution's signature sunburst. (Smithsonian Archives, Acc. 89-024, Box 4., Smithsonian Institution Archives)

Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

The Surprising Story of the Smithsonian Sunburst

Cranium of an individual recovered from beneath the Cathedral of Panama Viejo. (Javier Rivera Sandoval, ArtEmpire)

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

An 'oral' history: Archaeologists search for the origin of dental modification in Panama

Egyptologist Jacquelyn Williamson on site at Tell el-Amarna. Williamson will lead an all-day seminar for Smithsonian Associates on April 10 examining the site's latest discoveries.

Smithsonian Associates

Excavations at Tell el-Amarna and 25 Other Smithsonian Associates Programs Streaming in April

Jessica Esch, Totally, November 2020, 6 1/4

Archives of American Art

Treasure Trove: Archives as Inspiration

Vahagn working on a clay jug. (Photo by Narek Harutyunyan, My Armenia Program)

Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage

The Potter's Wheel: An Inexhaustible Source of Energy

Fiber artist Barbara Lee Smith in her studio. Photo: Sam Selby

Archives of American Art

A Friendship Forged in the Archives

Portrait of Jessica Govea. Courtesy of the Govea Family. (NMAH)

National Museum of American History

How One Girl Helped Build a Latinx Civil Rights Movement

Western lowland gorilla Baraka forages in the outdoor gorilla habitat at the Smithsonian's National Zoo. The silverback takes mealtime seriously, say his keepers.

National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute

How Do You Help a Gorilla With a Toothache?

Through Smithsonian programs, like ARTLAB and the National Youth Summit, museum educators demonstrate how adult mentors can elevate the voices of teens in their communities. (Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden)

Smithsonian Education

How Educators Can Boost and Activate Teen Voices

Sophia Kianni is the founder of Climate Cardinals, a member of the UN Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change, and hosts her own podcast.

Smithsonian Science

Meet Sophia Kianni: Young Climate Change Changemaker

Portrait of Graceanna Lewis, The Underground Rail Road (1872). (Smithsonian Libraries and Archives)

Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

Who was Graceanna Lewis, Naturalist and Abolitionist?

All modern dogs are descended from a wolf species that when extinct around 15,000 years ago. Grey wolves, pictured here fighting for food with now extinct dire wolves (red), are dogs’ closest living relative. (Art by Mauricio Antón)

National Museum of Natural History

Meet the Scientist Studying How Dogs Evolved From Predator to Pet

Anto Kilislian prepares lahmajoun at the 2018 Smithsonian Folklife Festival. (Photo by Sonya Pencheva, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives)

Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage

Food and Longing in the Armenian Diaspora

This dress, with a matching necklace and ruby red high heels, was worn by Cornell to her prom in 2018 (NMAH)

National Museum of American History

How Isabella Aiukli Cornell Made Prom Political

Untitled (Old Maid's Puzzle). Holmes County, Ohio, circa 1930. This is the first quilt the Brown’s purchased, in 1976, that started their Amish quilt collection.

Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery

The Graphic Appeal of Amish Quilts

Unidentified, Untitled (Side with the Farmworkers), front and reverse views, c. 1973, screenprint on computer tractor paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Margaret Terrazas Santos Collection, 2019.52.4

Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery

From Recycling to Revolution: Alternative Media in Chicanx Protest Art

Cover of the autobiography of Beba Epstein written in the 1933-34 school year, with a picture of her. (Photo credit: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. The Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania is the custodian of Beba Epstein’s autobiography, which was digitized with their consent as part of the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections project)

Smithsonian Affiliations

How the Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Girl Inspired an Exhibition

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