The Interoceanic Corridor through southern Mexico is on track for mid-2026 completion, connecting the Pacific and Atlantic by rail and transforming trade ...

They were continuing a census of tropical birds that has been underway for 44 years. The existence of STRI is something of a miracle that dates back to the Isthmus of Panama’s very formation, roughly ...

By 1984, cooperation to release sterile flies reared in the facility in Texas had pushed the parasite south of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, which, being narrow, created a bottleneck — much easier ...

crossed the Isthmus of Panama over 6 million years ago," said lead author, Christine Bacon, former post-doctoral fellow in staff scientist Carlos Jaramillo's group at the Smithsonian Tropical Research ...

This waterway, which slices 50 miles across the isthmus of Panama to connect the ... who heads the physical monitoring program for the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama.

The project would cost $375 million and more than 25,000 lives from accidents and tropical diseases ... to build a canal through the Colombian Isthmus of Panama. The 50-mile-long canal is expected ...

The closure of the Isthmus, which took place 2.8 million years ago, caused significant changes in the marine environments on both sides. The Caribbean side became warmer, more saline, and ...

Tropical activity abounds in both the Atlantic and the Pacific, where the oceans are churning out named storms as if it’s still September. Norma slammed into Mexico over the weekend and another ...

A powerful post-tropical storm that coincided with a perigean spring tide (on a new moon) causing extensive flooding from storm surge in the Bay of Fundy. The isthmus between Nova Scotia and New ...

As an intern and later a fellow at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI ... they also unearth the story they reveal about the isthmus’ deep past. The fossils were from the Late ...

El Niño, a natural phenomenon in the tropical Pacific Ocean ... which had sole control over the channel across the Panamanian isthmus until 1979. The Panamanian government fully took control ...