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Finding Food and Solace in the Intertidal | Hakai Magazine
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On the complex pleasures of harvesting shellfish with the people you love.
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For an Ecosystem in Crisis, Recovery Can Take Ages | Hakai Magazine
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A massive environmental calamity rocked the ancient Mediterranean. It took millions of years for the ecosystem to recover.
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The Other Side of the World’s Largest Dam Removal | Hakai Magazine
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Removing dams from the Klamath River in Northern California seems like a clear win for fish and rivers. Why do some locals hate it?
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Where Now Grizzly Bear? | Hakai Magazine
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After centuries of persecution, brown bears are showing up in some unexpected places.
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Crafting the Perfect Poo | Hakai Magazine
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Scientists are working to emulate whale waste, which they say could fertilize the ocean and sequester carbon.
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Islands of the Feral Pigs | Hakai Magazine
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In Hawai‘i, people, pigs, and ecosystems only have so much room to coexist, and the pigs exist a little too much.
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Where the Rivers Run Pink | Hakai Magazine
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Non-native pink salmon have swarmed Norway’s rivers, prompting a relentless—and potentially fruitless—fight to beat back the invaders.
on Oct 28
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Listening In on the Mysterious Marbled Murrelet | Hakai Magazine
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Applying machine learning to forest soundscapes helps researchers pinpoint rare and threatened birds.
on Oct 25
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The Slow-Motion Destruction of Tortoises’ Slow-Motion Migration | Hakai Magazine
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On the Galapagos’ most developed island, researchers are tracking a growing threat to the millennia-old migration routes of giant tortoises.
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Is Deforestation Supercharging Cyclones? | Hakai Magazine
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The airborne water cycle, destabilized by industrial logging and other land use, may be a hidden force behind growing superstorms.
on Oct 21
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Environmental Protection, with a Side of Small Business | Hakai Magazine
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Conservation takes cash, and philanthropic funding is notoriously fickle. To secure the future of its environmental efforts, this Dominican nonprofit is trying something new: making booze.
on Oct 18
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The Coming Collision Between Whales and Tankers on British Columbia’s Coast | Hakai Magazine
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Decades after they were hunted to local extinction, fin whales are recovering in the Kitimat fjord system—only to be threatened by a booming LNG industry.
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Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal is About to Go Big | Hakai Magazine
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Following its Singaporean pilot project, carbon sequestration start-up Equatic aims to build a massive plant in Quebec.
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Algal Allies Help Sleuth Out Ancient Earthquakes | Hakai Magazine
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Rocky algal rims offer new evidence of Croatia’s seismic past.
on Oct 4
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Migrating Seabirds Are Bringing Forever Chemicals Into the Arctic | Hakai Magazine
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New research shows how toxic chemicals hitch a ride with seabirds flying from southern latitudes to the Arctic.
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Trapped in the Tide of Organized Crime | Hakai Magazine
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How Ecuador’s growing armed struggle is affecting its traditional crabbing communities.
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One Great Shot: The Big Eye of the Storm | Hakai Magazine
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A photographer chanced upon a pot-of-gold shot while snorkeling in Seychelles.
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The Australian Oyster Reef Revival | Hakai Magazine
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A successful restoration project on the Adelaide coast is raising hopes for the future of a long-lost ecosystem.
on Sep 27
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The Poachers Who Could Save Mexico’s Vaquita | Hakai Magazine
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Vaquita have long been collateral damage for Mexico’s totoaba fishers, but conservationists believe there’s a solution. The only hitch? It’s illegal.
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The adoption of ship scrubbers—technology meant to clean up dirty fuel—has caused a surge in heavy metal pollution.
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Whales May Be Communicating Across Vast Distances | Hakai Magazine
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Researchers have long suspected that bowhead whales keep in touch from far away. New evidence of synchronized diving between two whales 100 kilometers apart supports the theory.
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When a She-Bear Swims Ashore | Hakai Magazine
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One pioneering grizzly—and her two cubs—appear on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
on Sep 20
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For the First Time, Part of the Ocean Has Been Granted Legal Personhood | Hakai Magazine
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By affording rights to its iconic waves, a Brazilian city is paving a new path to marine protection.
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Neighborhood Digs | Hakai Magazine
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On the Pacific Northwest coast—and around the world—community archaeology is helping people reconcile with each other and their history.
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Do Marine Animals Need Wildlife Bridges, Too? | Hakai Magazine
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Human infrastructure can hinder the mobility of marine animals.
on Sep 13
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In Graphic Detail: By-caught Birds | Hakai Magazine
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New research estimates that some 200,000 birds are accidentally caught in fishing gear in Europe each year.
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The Big Baltic Bomb Cleanup | Hakai Magazine
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The ocean became a dumping ground for weapons after Allied forces won the battle against Nazis. Now a team of robots and divers are making the Baltic Sea safer.
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Encounters with the Maverick Archaeologist of the Americas | Hakai Magazine
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It took a mountain of data to shake off the skeptics and rewrite the history of human migrations, but archaeologist Tom Dillehay was always interested in so much more than an argument.
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Saltwater Aquaculture Is More Climate-Friendly than Freshwater Aquaculture | Hakai Magazine
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As the aquaculture industry grows, new research finds that seafoods raised in marine waters have a smaller carbon footprint than those raised in fresh water.
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Floatplanes are ubiquitous on the coast and indispensable for remote communities, but they don’t need to follow the same regulations and reporting as commercial airlines. How do you keep pilots and passengers safe?
on Aug 30
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Here a Bee, There a Bee, Everywhere a Wild Bee | Hakai Magazine
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Biologists are finding new bee species all over the Pacific Northwest—highlighting how little we know about native pollinators.
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The Long Road to Ropeless Fishing | Hakai Magazine
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The first step to overcoming fishers' resistance to the new conservation-focused technology is building trust.
on Aug 26
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Galapagos giant tortoises are restoring their own ecosystem
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A decades-long project to reintroduce Galapagos giant tortoises is changing the face of the island of Española.
on Aug 23
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One Great Shot: Herculean Hurdles for Tiny Turtles | Hakai Magazine
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One person’s footprint is a sea turtle hatchling’s obstacle course.
on Aug 15
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Scandinavia’s Missing Bronze-Age Boatyards | Hakai Magazine
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Archaeologists argue that ancient Scandinavian boat-building infrastructure has been hiding in plain sight.
on Aug 8
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Tribal Hatcheries and the Road to Restoration | Hakai Magazine
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In the US Pacific Northwest, tribal hatcheries uphold Indigenous communities’ treaty rights to salmon, while buying time to rehabilitate lost habitat.
on Aug 3
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In Graphic Detail: Mouthfuls of Microplastic | Hakai Magazine
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A new study estimates how much microplastic is sprinkled into your food and the air.
on Aug 2
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Is Canada Taking Shortcuts to Hit Its Marine Protection Targets? | Hakai Magazine
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The government is counting fisheries closures as protected spaces in order to hit a 2020 target. Many scientists argue this is not meaningful conservation.
on Jul 31
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Canada’s New Marine (Less) Protected (Than It Could Have Been) Area | Hakai Magazine
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A string of concessions to the oil and gas and fishing industries has severely weakened the protective value of Canada’s largest planned marine protected area.
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Proposed Amendment Could Actually Protect Marine Protected Areas | Hakai Magazine
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New legislation would give planned MPAs interim protection during the years-long approval process.
on Jul 31
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Canada Has New Rules Governing Its Marine Protected Areas. Do They Go Far Enough? | Hakai Magazine
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Fisheries and Oceans Canada cites public backlash as one of the motivating factors for changing the rules governing marine protected areas.
on Jul 31
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The Very Hungry Urchins | Hakai Magazine
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Researchers are restoring the Caribbean’s surprising, spiky custodians, which gobble up the algae smothering coral reefs.
on Jul 30
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Blood in the Water, Food on the Table, Protesters on the Shore | Hakai Magazine
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A centuries-old traditional whale hunt in the Faroe Islands remains in the crosshairs of animal rights activists.
on Jul 29
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Environmentally, Offshore Wind Is … Fine | Hakai Magazine
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How often can you say that about an energy generation system?
on Jul 27
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For Seals, Big Hearts Mean Big Dives | Hakai Magazine
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An enlarged aorta enables seals to dive for longer durations.
on Jul 25
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Birthing the Blob | Hakai Magazine
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With ecosystems increasingly squeezed by anthropogenic warming, even cleaning up pollution can cause problems.
on Jul 21
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The Social Cost of Carbon Credits | Hakai Magazine
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Multinational companies funded a US $4.4-million carbon offset project. Senegalese locals did much of the work—and saw almost none of the money.
on Jul 16
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Horseshoe Crabs Have Been Hiding Out in the Marsh | Hakai Magazine
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Scientists know so much, and yet so little.
on Jul 11
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The Estuary Smothered by a Thousand Logs | Hakai Magazine
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For decades, scientists have known that allowing the timber industry to store logs in estuaries kills marine life. So why does British Columbia still permit it?
on Jul 9
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New Reads for Coastal Kids Are Packed with Fun and Facts | Hakai Magazine
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These 10 coastal-themed books deliver more than pretty pictures.
on Jul 8