A Museum Educator holding a tape measure around a tree's circumference

How Old Is Your Oak?

A How-to by NHMLAC
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City Nature Challenge girl with binoculars

Global Community Science

How crowd-sourced science projects like the City Nature Challenge fuel research to protect our planet
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Miner, fuzz, macro, yellow, wing
Research and Collections

Big Bee Bonanza

Help digitize NHM's bee collections and keep bees buzzing with this crowd-sourced community science project
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Dune sedge, strawberry, and juniper make good lawn alternatives

Get Off Your Lawn

Quit cutting grass and start cutting down your water usage with inspiration from our Nature Gardens
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white storks
Research and Collections

Armenia's White Storks

Nest Neighbors Bring Good Fortune Across the Globe
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Research and Collections

Sample Tar Pits' Paleo Diets

Gnawing questions answered with fossilized teeth
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Two males biting the head and neck region of a female Southern Alligator Lizard

Climate Change, Reptiles, and You!

Animals are already reacting to climate change
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Marine Minerals Video sunset over ocean
Research and Collections

There's Climate History at the Bottom of the Ocean

Looking at ocean sediments reveals how Earth has changed over time.
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Los Angeles River
Naturalist

Remembering the First Earth Day

“It was just a real beginning of the environmental movement.”
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Amy Gusick doing field research in Micronesia
Naturalist

Humans On The Move

Dr. Amy Gusick, NHM’s Associate Curator of Anthropology, looks for answers in her archaeological studies of how people responded to environmental fluctuations
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