Meet the Smithsonian Fellow Alumni Helping to Save the Planet
This Earth Day, learn about early-career researchers who are tackling issues from green technology to lichen biodiversity and coral rehabilitation
Smithsonian Scientists Discover That Traditional Agricultural Practices in the Amazon Helped Yield an Enduring Crop Clone
Genetic analyses and interviews with Indigenous farmers revealed that most manioc crops resemble each other across time and space
Meet Sylvia Earle, the Trailblazing Marine Biologist Who Has Spent Her Career Giving Algae Their Long-Deserved Due
For International Women and Girls in Science Day, the museum’s Ocean Portal spoke with “Her Deepness” about science, seaweed and the planet’s future
Pawpaw-Palooza: The Inside Scoop on North America’s Taste of the Tropics
The strange plant is ingrained in American history and well-represented in the museum’s herbarium and gardens
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