What is Blue Carbon?
In this quick exhibit from Smithsonian Online, learn about Blue Carbon and its environmental functions “What is blue carbon? It’s a term used to describe the carbon that is captured…
21 Year Old Leading Pacific Ocean Cleanup Efforts
Sarah Grossman-Editorial Fellow, The Huffington Post It’s time to see if this activist’s plan to clean the ocean can really hold water. Boyan Slat, a 21-year-old who gained worldwide recognition…
FAS Capacity-Building Efforts in Central America Yield Benefits There and at Home
Posted by Robert Schubert, FAS Office of Capacity Building and Development, on June 27, 2016 Pablo Chacón, a young Guatemalan farmer who is studying agroforestry at the Tropical Agricultural Research…
Desert Museum in Egypt Focuses on Fossils and Climate Change
A new museum has opened in the middle of the Egyptian desert, focusing on prior marine life in the region, and also placing an emphasis on the impacts of climate…
Preserving a Giant Squid at The Museum of Natural History
Jonathan Ablett, Curator of Mollusks for the Natural History Museum in London, discusses how the museum received an intact giant squid specimen measuring over 8 meters in length. Ablett goes…