Hakai Magazine Audio Edition
376 episodes - English - Latest episode: 22 days ago - ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsEvery Tuesday, Hakai Magazine brings you the best stories from the world’s coastlines. Each episode is a recording of our weekly feature story. Find all of our stories at hakaimagazine.com.
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Rebroadcast: The Gnawing Question of Saltwater Beavers
May 16, 2023 07:05 - 22 minutes - 31.1 MBby 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. Originally published in January 2019, the story, along with photos and video, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.
Rebroadcast: Deer Wars: The Forest Awakens
May 09, 2023 07:05 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBby Leslie Anthony • On Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, culling deer is an act of cultural and ecological restoration. Originally published in January 2019, the story, along with photos and video, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.
The Foul Chartreuse Sea
May 02, 2023 07:05 - 15 minutes - 28.8 MBby Saima Sidik • Researchers in Kotzebue, Alaska, are investigating why their town is increasingly playing host to harmful cyanobacteria. The original story, along with photos, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.
Shining the Light on Baby Crabs
April 25, 2023 07:05 - 27 minutes - 37.9 MBby Spoorthy Raman • In British Columbia, a monitoring project with light traps may illuminate the future of the prized crustaceans. The original story, along with photos and video, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.
I Dare You to Stop Proliferating Fossil Fuels
April 18, 2023 07:05 - 14 minutes - 13.4 MBby Jude Isabella • The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty helped us not kill each other and all life on Earth. Can we follow the same steps to avoid mutually assured climate destruction? The original story, along with photos, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.
Rebroadcast: The Curious Case of Bermuda’s Mysterious Turtle
April 11, 2023 07:05 - 17 minutes - 15.9 MBby 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. Originally published in October 2016, the story, along with photos, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.
Gone to the Dogs
April 04, 2023 07:05 - 17 minutes - 15.8 MBby Ben Goldfarb • Man’s best friend is a shorebird’s worst enemy. What will it take to control beach dogs—and, more importantly, their owners? The original story, along with photos and video, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.
Rebroadcast: The Risky Fame of a Rare Island Wildcat
March 28, 2023 21:20 - 26 minutes - 23.8 MBby 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. Originally published in January 2019, the story, along with photos, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.
Cruise Ship Invasion
March 21, 2023 07:05 - 25 minutes - 47.3 MBby Andrew Engelson • Take a typical Alaska cruise and see the damage in its wake. The evidence is clear: the industry needs an overhaul. The original story, along with photos, videos, maps, and graphs, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.
Banking on the Seaweed Rush
March 14, 2023 20:33 - 20 minutes - 18.4 MBby Nicola Jones • Seaweed farmers promise to feed us, combat climate change, support coastal communities, provide wildlife habitat, and more. Can seaweed do it all? The original story, along with photos, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.
Rebroadcast: Why Does Halibut Cost So Much?
March 07, 2023 07:05 - 19 minutes - 27.4 MBby Larry Pynn • There are good reasons why putting halibut on your plate can strain your wallet. Originally published in December 2018, the story, along with photos and videos, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.
Rebroadcast: The Cavernous World under the Woods
February 28, 2023 07:05 - 38 minutes - 53.1 MBby 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. Originally published in November 2018, the story, along with photos and videos, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.
In Cod’s Shadow, Redfish Rise
February 21, 2023 15:40 - 20 minutes - 18.4 MBby Moira Donovan • Thirty years after the population collapsed, the Atlantic redfish fishery is poised to reopen, providing a second chance at a sustainable fishery. The original story, along with photos, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.
Rebroadcast: The Hidden Coastal Culture of the Ancient Maya
February 14, 2023 07:05 - 25 minutes - 23.3 MBby 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? Originally published in November 2018, the story, along with photos and videos, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.
Giving Bambi the Boot
February 07, 2023 07:05 - 24 minutes - 46.3 MBby Brian Payton • Our love of deer runs deep. But as their numbers surge and damage mounts, it may be time for a reckoning. The original story, along with photos, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.
In Norway, Whale Watchers Churn a “Soup of Chaos”
January 31, 2023 07:05 - 35 minutes - 66.6 MBby Egill Bjarnason • It’s amazing no one has died. The original story, along with photos, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.
Rebroadcast: The Halibut Hook Revival
January 24, 2023 07:05 - 15 minutes - 14.2 MBby Raina Delisle • An ingenious Indigenous fishing technology with spiritual significance is making a comeback. Originally published in October 2018, the story, along with photos and videos, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.
Farmer, the World May Not Be Your Oyster
January 17, 2023 19:19 - 20 minutes - 18.9 MBby Magdalena Puniewska • Despite the desire for local and sustainable seafood, oyster farmers and communities from New York to Rhode Island are clashing over public access and ocean views. The original story, along with photos, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.
The Fishadelphia Story
January 10, 2023 07:05 - 22 minutes - 20.5 MBby Ann Finkbeiner • How a scientist and a gritty team of activists and students are bringing fresh fish back to Philadelphia’s underserved neighborhoods. The original story, along with photos, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.
How We Came to Know and Fear the Doomsday Glacier
January 03, 2023 16:17 - 29 minutes - 54.3 MBby Marissa Grunes • It’s the world’s most vulnerable glacier and key to the stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, yet we’re only now getting to know Thwaites Glacier. What took us so long? The original story, along with photos and video, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.
Rebroadcast: In the Kingdom of the Bears
December 20, 2022 08:06 - 44 minutes - 40.9 MBby Jude Isabella • The human-bear bond is ancient, but across the northern hemisphere, only a few societies remember the art of neighboring bears. Originally broadcast in October 2018, the story, along with photos and videos, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.
Unearthing the Original Mediterranean Diet
December 13, 2022 07:05 - 21 minutes - 19.5 MBby Paul Greenberg • Archaeologist Dimitra Mylona’s odyssey to reveal the Mediterranean Sea’s lost bounty. The original story, along with photos and video, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.
Mumbai Embraces Its Booming Flamingo Population
December 06, 2022 07:05 - 21 minutes - 40 MBby Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar • Despite pressure from development, flamingos seem to be thriving on the shores of one of the world’s most populous cities, and local people are becoming protective of the birds and their habitat. The original story, along with photos and video, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.
Is Sausage the Missing Link in the Great Bait Debate?
November 29, 2022 07:05 - 23 minutes - 21.3 MBby Moira Donovan • Lobster and snow crab fisheries are booming, but the bait used to catch them—herring and mackerel—is not, so the search for alternative baits is on. The original story, along with photos and video, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.
The Price of Paper
November 22, 2022 07:06 - 20 minutes - 18.7 MBby Larry Pynn • Coastal communities around the world contend with the toxic legacies of pulp and paper mills. The original story, along with photos, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.
Welcoming Herring Home
November 08, 2022 07:05 - 18 minutes - 16.8 MBby Lauren Kaljur • In Howe Sound, British Columbia, a new generation of stewards is keeping careful tabs on the comeback efforts of a tiny fish with big cultural value. The original story, along with photos, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.
The Marine Lab in the Path of Fury
November 01, 2022 07:05 - 25 minutes - 47.4 MBby Boyce Upholt • At the DeFelice Marine Center, researchers and staff are living, working, and adapting to climate change in real time. The original story, along with photos, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.
Climate Activists Are Waging a New Kind of Legal Fight
October 25, 2022 07:05 - 12 minutes - 11.6 MBby Isabella Kaminski • In the face of bigger wildfires, deadlier floods, and more extreme weather, plaintiffs around the world are taking up a new tactic: suing for the damage climate change has already wrought. The original story, along with photos, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.
Murder at Sea
October 18, 2022 07:05 - 55 minutes - 103 MBby Sarah Tory • When a grainy video of a grisly mass shooting on the high seas surfaced, one determined detective and a host of NGOs went on a quest for justice. The original story can be found on hakaimagazine.com.
Something’s Jellyfishy in the State of Italy
October 11, 2022 15:31 - 17 minutes - 15.9 MBby Agostino Petroni • Jellyfish as a human food source has been touted as a solution to the increasing populations of these gelatinous invertebrates, but are Mediterranean diners really ready to have jellyfish for dinner? The original story, along with photos and video, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.
Surf and Turf: Saving a Wave by Protecting the Land
October 04, 2022 07:05 - 11 minutes - 21.6 MBby Victor R. Rodríguez • In Mexico, scientists, surfers, and a passionate community rally to protect a beloved break. The original story, along with photos, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.
A Moonshot for Coral Breeding Was Successful
September 27, 2022 07:05 - 16 minutes - 15.2 MBBut the coral are trapped in tanks, still waiting to be released on the reefs. • by Alex Riley The original story, along with photos and video, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.
Philadephia’s Diatom Archive Is a Way, Way, Wayback Machine
September 20, 2022 07:05 - 18 minutes - 16.6 MBby Jack Tamisiea • A cache of phytoplankton held at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University is helping to reconstruct historical coastlines. The original story, along with photos, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.
The Mysterious, Vexing, and Utterly Engrossing Search for the Origin of Eels
September 13, 2022 07:05 - 16 minutes - 14.7 MBby Christina Couch • To save endangered eels, researchers have been working for decades to figure out where they reproduce. The original story, along with photos, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.
Rebroadcast: Kelly the Sassy Dolphin
September 06, 2022 07:05 - 29 minutes - 41.1 MBby Rose Eveleth • What can one brash dolphin teach us about personality? Originally published in October 2018, the story, along with photos, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.
With Old Traditions and New Tech, Young Inuit Chart Their Changing Landscape
August 30, 2022 07:05 - 14 minutes - 13.2 MBby Cheryl Katz • For generations, hunting, and the deep connection to the land it creates, has been a mainstay of Inuit culture. As the coastline changes rapidly—reshaping the marine landscape and jeopardizing the hunt—Inuit youth are charting ways to preserve the hunt, and their identity. tktktktk
Rebroadcast: Letting Go of Paradise
August 23, 2022 07:05 - 21 minutes - 20 MBby 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. Originally published in October 2015, the story, along with photos and video, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.
North Carolina’s Oysters Come Out of Their Shell
August 09, 2022 07:05 - 13 minutes - 18.4 MBby Emily Cataneo • In the tradition of wine and ale trails, the state’s oyster trail aims to give the farmed shellfish industry a needed boost. The original story, along with photos, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.
Rebroadcast: Of Roe, Rights, and Reconciliation
August 02, 2022 07:05 - 33 minutes - 45.4 MBby 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. Originally published in August 2018, the story, along with photos and video, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.
Romance, Politics, and Ecological Damage: The Saga of Sable Island’s Wild Horses
July 26, 2022 07:05 - 23 minutes - 43.3 MBby Moira Donovan • They’ve roamed free for hundreds of years, but is that freedom harming the ecosystem they call home? The original story, along with photos and video, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.
Living in a Doomed Paradise Where the Sea Consumes Cottages, Cliffs, and the A&W Drive-Thru
July 19, 2022 07:05 - 31 minutes - 28.7 MBby Taras Grescoe • Quebec’s Magdalen islanders face a stark choice: resist, adapt, or give in to the ravenous sea. The original story, along with photos, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.
The Controversial Plan to Unleash the Mississippi
July 12, 2022 07:05 - 35 minutes - 32.1 MBby Boyce Upholt • Our long history of constraining the river through levees has led to massive land loss in its delta. Can we engineer our way out? And at what cost? The original story, along with photos and video, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.
Rebroadcast: Groomed to Death
July 05, 2022 07:05 - 21 minutes - 29.3 MBby 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. Originally published in July 2018, the story, along with photos, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.
A Community’s Quest to Document Every Species on Their Island Home
June 28, 2022 07:00 - 34 minutes - 63.6 MBby Marina Wang • Naming leads to knowing, which leads to understanding. Residents of a small British Columbia island take to the forests and beaches to connect with their non-human neighbors. The original story, along with photos, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.
And Then the Sea Glowed a Magnificent Milky Green
June 21, 2022 07:05 - 14 minutes - 13.2 MBby Sam Keck Scott • A chance encounter with a rare phenomenon called a milky sea connects a sailor and a scientist to explain the ocean’s ghostly glow. The original story, along with photos and video, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.
Warning! Signs Are Not Enough to Save Beachgoers from Deadly Currents
June 14, 2022 07:05 - 21 minutes - 39.8 MBby Chloe Williams • Keeping people out of rip currents is more about reading human behavior than reading warning signs. The original story, along with photos and video, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.
Bonus Episode: Salt, Sweat, and Grit
June 08, 2022 23:07 - 52 minutes - 71.8 MBThe Race to Alaska is one of the most grueling at-sea races, taking participants from Port Townsend, Washington, to Ketchikan, Alaska, as they navigate complicated currents, narrow rocky channels, and inclement weather. The premise is simple: travel more than 1,200 kilometers with no motors, no support, and a USD $10,000 award waiting for the winner. Racers prepare sailboats, kayaks, paddleboards, or any manner of non-motorized vessels for a chance to put their paddle to the mettle in the ul...
The Paradox of Salmon Hatcheries, Part 4 of 4 — Tribal Hatcheries and the Road to Restoration
June 03, 2022 07:05 - 38 minutes - 35.1 MBby Ashley Braun • In the US Pacific Northwest, tribal hatcheries uphold Indigenous communities’ treaty rights to salmon, while buying time to rehabilitate lost habitat. This is final part of our special four part editorial package on salmon hatcheries. The original story, along with photos, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.
The Paradox of Salmon Hatcheries, Part 3 of 4 — The Hail Mary Hatcheries
June 02, 2022 07:05 - 36 minutes - 33.6 MBby Vanessa Minke-Martin • As wildfires, droughts, and floods deal a blow to coastal habitats, wild salmon are disappearing from waterways like California’s Russian River. Can conservation hatcheries save endangered runs? This is part three of our special four part editorial package on salmon hatcheries. The original story, along with photos, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.
The Paradox of Salmon Hatcheries, Part 2 of 4 — Too Many Pinks in the Pacific
June 01, 2022 07:05 - 27 minutes - 50.8 MBby Miranda Weiss • Evidence is mounting that pink salmon, pumped by the billions into the North Pacific from fish hatcheries, are upending marine ecosystems. This is part two of our special four part editorial package on salmon hatcheries. The original story, along with photos and map, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.