Director Adam Isenberg received the 2012 Margaret Mead Filmmaker Award for his film A Life Without Words (Una Vida Sin Palabras) on Sunday, December 2, as part of the the closing celebrations of the 2012 Margaret Mead Film Festival. 

The largest hurricane to make landfall along the mid-Atlantic coastline of the U.S., Superstorm Sandy made history. Experts say Sandy is a sign of more to come. 

The restored Theodore Roosevelt Memorial is now open, and a new self-guided tour—available as part of the Museum's Explorer app, or on our web site—highlights exhibits around the Museum with a connection to TR, who was President from 1901 to 1909. In this post, the second in a series, we explore one of the tour's stops: a slice of the trunk of a giant sequoia, on display in the Museum's Hall of North American Forests.

The dioramas in the Jill and Lewis Bernard Family Hall of North American Mammals have always been splendid, but after more than a year of painstaking restoration, they look better than ever—giving visitors close looks at many species of North American flora and fauna. A multi-video series, now on amnh.tv, documents parts of the restoration process.

On Thursday, December 6, the eminent sociobiologist E. O. Wilson will join former U.S. Poet Laureate and MacArthur Fellow Robert Hass (far left) at the Museum for a discussion about the interplay between art and science—and how close observation of nature, whether in poetry or science, can inspire the conservationist in all of us.