Hakai Magazine Audio Edition

by Alastair Bland • Increasingly, scientists are relying on data gathered by volunteers to make their research happen. The original story, along with photos and video, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.

by Kelly Catalfamo • Grunion, little fish that mate on beaches from California to Mexico, face a lot of obstacles to maintaining a healthy population. And the most pernicious may be drunk beachgoers. The original story, along with photos, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.

by Lina Zeldovich • For years, animal rights advocates have waged war against the US Navy for its use of dolphins in warfare and research. Is a resolution possible? The original story, along with photos and video, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.

by Ben Goldfarb • Scientists have long overlooked beavers in the intertidal zone. Now they’re counting on the freshwater rodents to restore Washington’s coastal ecosystems. The original story, along with photos and video, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.

by Leslie Anthony • On Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, culling deer is an act of cultural and ecological restoration. The original story, along with photos and video, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.

by Ben Goldfarb • Operation Green Turtle was considered one of the most audacious failures in the history of conservation biology—until a stunning nest inspired scientists to reconsider its legacy. The original story, along with photos, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.

by Rachel Nuwer • As Japan moves to make Iriomote Island a World Heritage Site, locals fear that tourists will overrun their remote paradise and impact their critically endangered feline neighbors. The original story, along with photos, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.

by Andrew Curry • On Öland, humans and grazing cattle have created a haven of biodiversity and preserved it for thousands of years. The original story, along with photos, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.

by Larry Pynn • There are good reasons why putting halibut on your plate can strain your wallet. The original story, along with photos and videos, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.

by Matthew Halliday • It is one of the modern world’s biggest mysteries—99 percent of the plastics that enter the ocean are missing. The original story, along with photos, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.

by Julia Rosen • Inuit in Canada and Greenland want to protect an ecological wonder—a massive Arctic polynya—at the center of their world. The original story, along with photos and maps, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.

by Bruce Grierson • On Vancouver Island, karst researchers hustle to save one of Earth’s most underappreciated—and fragile—ecosystems: an ecosystem hidden in plain sight. The original story, along with photos and videos, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.

by Hannah Hindley • Originally built as a gateway to space colonization, Biosphere 2 has a new purpose: to breed supercorals strong enough to survive swiftly changing seas. First, scientists must revive the simulated ocean. The original story, along with photos, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.

by Erik Vance • For thousands of years, ancient Maya kings ruled a vast inland empire in Mexico and Belize. But just how inland was it, really? The original story, along with photos and videos, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.

by Brian Owens • Lost fishing gear keeps on doing the job it was designed for long after its owners are gone. The original story, along with photos, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.

by Raina Delisle • An ingenious Indigenous fishing technology with spiritual significance is making a comeback. The original story, along with photos, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.

by Katharine Gammon • It’s dangerous to blame the decline of one species on a single predator. We humans like to do it anyway. The original story, along with photos, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.

by Jude Isabella • The human-bear bond is ancient, but across the northern hemisphere, only a few societies remember the art of neighboring bears. The original story, along with photos and videos, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.

by Rose Eveleth • What can one brash dolphin teach us about personality? The original story, along with photos, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.

by Steven Ashley • Three years after Superstorm Sandy slammed into New Jersey’s coast, few local communities want to accept that the Shore’s glory days are numbered. The original story, along with photos, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.

by Paul Hockenos • How Norway is using oil and gas riches to engineer a future in emission-free seafaring. The original story, along with photos and videos, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.

by Brian Payton • On Vancouver Island, a hermit-priest has spent a lifetime contemplating the natural world. At 95, he has come to believe there is a way we can save it.

by Ian Gill • On the British Columbia coast, the Heiltsuk First Nation asserts its rights to manage its resources, and who has access to them, through the seasonal herring harvest.

by Geoffrey Giller • Scientists in the emerging field of conservation paleobiology believe that the key to oyster conservation could be contained in ancient shells.

by Frances Backhouse • The British Columbia coastline once pulsed with action around salmon canneries. Today, guided by Indigenous leadership, only one cannery processing wild salmon remains.

by Edward Struzik • As the climate changes, the Arctic Ocean beckons Pacific salmon and other species. How will we fish responsibly?

by Brendan Borrell • Urban beaches around the world have less garbage than remote beaches, but less life too. The City of Santa Monica hopes to change the image of a clean beach.

by Kenneth R. Weiss • Advances in genetic technology will make us all DNA detectives.

by Andrew Curry • Coastlines around the world boast hints of ancient humans who gathered and traveled along the edges of the world, where land meets sea.

by Ilima Loomis • How globalization of the seafood industry keeps consumers in the dark and prices down.

by Daniel Wood • Could the survival of millions of migrating shorebirds depend on the preservation of humble marine biofilm?

by Shanna Baker • As a breeding facility works to retain a pure lineage of the Cuban crocodile, out in the wild the division between species is getting murkier all the time.

by Madeline Ostrander • Government regulations forced the Yup’ik to give up their semi-nomadic existence. Now, as the land around them vanishes, they’re puzzling through the problem of moving.

by Gloria Dickie • In Iceland, imported mink escaped fur farms and feasted their way through the food web—until nature bit back.

by Ben Goldfarb • In Maine, a strange legal debate is raging over rights to the state’s most important seaweed.

by Elizabeth Preston • In Scotland and around the world, archaeologists rush to understand ancient sites that climate change is both revealing and washing away.

by Michael Engelhard • In Victorian England, re-engineered rain cloaks, umbrellas, and walking sticks floated adventurers down the Thames and, eventually, into the Arctic.

by Eva Holland • A grassroots guard learns how to keep people and polar bears safe in a small Arctic community.

by Tyee Bridge • As glaciers melt, unstable slopes are being exposed and are on the precipice of collapse.

by Andrew Nikiforuk • Why do we pretend to clean up oil spills in the ocean?

by Madeline Ostrander • Dedicated Pacific Northwest plant lovers nurture an indigenous food with ancient roots.

by Ben Goldfarb • Tribes of the Columbia River watershed are hustling to keep the Pacific lamprey alive, one fish at a time.

by Krista Langlois • Arctic people have been communicating with cetaceans for centuries—and scientists are finally taking note.

by Sarah Tory • The unsettling disappearance of a fisheries observer sparks questions about safety on the high seas and the fate of the fish stocks observers attempt to monitor.

by Heather Pringle • The rich, the poor, and the battle for the Bay of Naples.

by Andrew Curry • At least one million tonnes of chemical weapons were dumped in the oceans between 1919 and 1980. Now what?

by Ferris Jabr • String is far more important than the wheel in the pantheon of inventions.

by Adrienne Mason • There and back again: a taxonomist’s quest to reveal the world’s tiniest realms.

by Krista Langlois, Heather Pringle • A remote Arctic land may hold a vital missing chapter from human history. The only problem? It disappeared at the end of the last ice age.

by Brendan Borrell • After half a century, the counterculture squatters of Kalalau Valley are facing a final eviction.