Articles
The device is so easy to use, researchers are asking for a “squidpop blitz” for World Oceans Day.
by Laurie M. Penland
More than 315 billion pounds of plastic pollute our oceans, including the Great Pacific trash vortex, a vast patch of plastic debris that some estimates calculate as being twice the size of the continental United States.
by Alex di Giovanni
Smithsonian photographer Laurie Penland details the exhausting, but rewarding, work of scraping invasive species off the hull of a boat.
by Laurie M Penland
Laurie Penland has been diving for 19 years, six of them as a diving officer for the Smithsonian Institution, and yet last September she witnessed something she never had before: a plastic invasion.
by Megan Gambino
Understanding how corals reproduce is critical to their survival; Smithsonian's Nancy Knowlton investigates the annual event.
by Megan Gambino