Oceans
Missing: Arctic Rubber Duckies
Missing: 90 yellow rubber duckies dropped into a moulin (a tubular hole) in a melting Greenland glacier approximately three months ago
Picture of the Week – Is that Lettuce?
This is a sea slug, Elysia chlorotica, and it looks like a leaf because it has acquired chloroplasts from its algal prey and stored them in its gut lining
Sea Glass: The Search on the Shore
Part of the sea glass hunting elite, Nancy and Richard LaMotte are finding the treasures they covet harder to come by
Befriending Luna the Killer Whale
How a popular Smithsonian story about a stranded orca led to a new documentary about humanity’s link to wild animals
On the Job
A lobsterman in Maine talks about the lure of working on the water
Deep Trouble
Coral reefs are clearly struggling. The only debate for marine scientists is whether the harm is being done on a local or global scale
Turning the Tide
Our oceans are in trouble, says Nancy Knowlton. But it's not too late to do something about it
35 Who Made a Difference: Clyde Roper
He's spent his life chasing a sea monster that's never been taken alive
Medicine from the Sea
From slime to sponges, scientists are plumbing the ocean's depths for new medications to treat cancer, pain and other ailments
Iceberg Wrangler
When a million-ton iceberg threatens your $5 billion oil platform, who you gonna call? Jerome Baker
Lasting Impressions
Scientists cast tall shadows but find themselves hard pressed to explain the blues to Mongolians
Message in a Bottle
By studying objects cast up on our shores, researcher Curtis Ebbesmeyer traces the flow of ocean currents
Master of the Deep
Before Smithsonian scientists do underwater research, Michael Lang makes them seaworthy.
We're Scraping Bottom
As vessels around the world drag nets and dredges across the seabed, they slowly destroy the biome
Wiring the Jersey Coast
In one spot on the continental shelf, scientists aim to understand all that happens, 24 hours a day
Phenomena, Comment and Notes
Life not only thrives in the heat and violence of Earth's submarine volcanoes, it may have started there
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