Hakai Magazine Audio Edition

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.