Hakai Magazine Audio Edition
376 episodes - English - Latest episode: 21 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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Episodes
The Brine Revolution
June 20, 2017 11:53 - 22 minutes - 20.9 MBby Heather Pringle Did lowly shellfish change the world?
The Lunar Sea
June 13, 2017 11:29 - 16 minutes - 22.5 MBby Ferris Jabr The moon influences life in a surprising and subtle way: with its light.
In The Land Of Lost Gardens
June 06, 2017 10:37 - 19 minutes - 18.2 MBby Heather Pringle Tireless in her quest, ethnobotanist Nancy Turner works with indigenous elders to preserve plant knowledge dating back to the First People in the New World.
Unique Language of Newfoundland
May 30, 2017 10:35 - 16 minutes - 23 MBby Emily Urquhart Isolated in the North Atlantic, the people of Newfoundland and Labrador developed a subtle and beautiful lexicon to describe their environment.
The Shellfish Gene
May 23, 2017 10:55 - 15 minutes - 14.2 MBby Amorina Kingdon and Patrick Daley How shellfish farmers are leaning on genes to unmask the secrets of mussels, scallops, and oysters.
Reef Avengers
May 16, 2017 12:30 - 20 minutes - 28.3 MBby Theodora Sutcliffe Indonesia’s reefs have been poisoned or blasted to smithereens by the very people who depend on them the most. Now islanders are working to restore the coral, and recover the resources they’ve lost, piece by piece.
Crocodiles Rising
May 09, 2017 10:58 - 50 minutes - 45.8 MBby Shanna Baker In the Northern Territory of Australia, policymakers and biologists managed the impossible—making the benefits of living with a booming population of deadly crocodiles outweigh the risks. But when two apex predators must share coastal resources, there’s bound to be conflict.
Drawing Meaning from Death, One Seabird at a Time
May 02, 2017 11:00 - 16 minutes - 22.5 MBby Larry Pynn In the Pacific Northwest, the diligence of citizen scientists is shedding light on the lives, and deaths, of seabirds.
Bandits On The Beach
April 25, 2017 10:16 - 27 minutes - 25.1 MBby Jude Isabella What island raccoons tell us about fear.
Embracing the Weirdness
April 18, 2017 10:37 - 25 minutes - 34.9 MBby Jude Isabella The drought in California has created an obsession with water, but sometimes, no water is just fine.
Pool-landia
April 11, 2017 12:32 - 18 minutes - 17.3 MBby Egill Bjarnason For 70 years, Iceland has kept afloat the idea that mandatory swimming lessons save lives, but the policy doesn’t hold water.
Dam Busters
April 04, 2017 17:48 - 11 minutes - 15.3 MBby Paul Greenberg A nascent environmental movement is liberating rivers and freeing fish.
No Wool, No Vikings
March 29, 2017 03:53 - 23 minutes - 31.9 MBby Claire Eamer The fleece that launched 1,000 ships.
For Sale Wild Russian Killer Whales
March 22, 2017 00:18 - 23 minutes - 21.5 MBby Lina Zeldovich As Westerners condemn live whale shows, Russia hunts and sells killer whales to Chinese amusement parks.
Little Shop Of Wildlife Horrors
March 14, 2017 10:55 - 14 minutes - 13 MBby Gloria Dickie The grim curios and taxidermic creations housed in the US wildlife repository provide clues about trends in wildlife smuggling. And in recent years, coastal species from Latin America have been showing up en masse.
From Vilified to Vindicated
March 07, 2017 11:55 - 21 minutes - 29.6 MBby Heather Pringle How a toxic debate over the first Americans hobbled science for decades.
The Bounty of The Bone Pile
February 27, 2017 12:09 - 17 minutes - 16.3 MBby Michael Engelhard Butchered whales lure polar bears and tourists to a coastal Alaskan town. So far, so good. Sort of.
Saving the Silverspot
February 21, 2017 12:38 - 12 minutes - 17.1 MBby Rebecca Heisman A team of scientists and land managers is racing to save a butterfly that depends on fragile coastal habitat.
The Unforgettable Pia Arke
February 14, 2017 11:48 - 29 minutes - 40.7 MBby Vanessa Gregory The most important feminist, postcolonial artist you’ve never heard of.
The Clam That Sank a Thousand Ships
February 07, 2017 11:57 - 24 minutes - 33.9 MBby Sarah Gilman These infamous clams are invading new areas, buoyed by climate change and the 2011 tsunami in Japan.
How To Fund An Expedition
January 31, 2017 12:14 - 9 minutes - 8.71 MBby Eli Kintisch Charles Francis Hall had the courage to explore the Arctic—and the savvy to get the wealthy to pay for it.
People Of The Sea Ice See Cracks Forming
January 24, 2017 11:34 - 16 minutes - 15 MBby Eli Kintisch One of Canada’s most northerly communities reinvents its relationship with a thawing landscape.
The Uncertain Future of Puffin for Dinner
January 17, 2017 11:24 - 26 minutes - 35.9 MBby Cheryl Katz Hunting and eating puffins are Icelandic traditions. But for how much longer?
The Last Trial Of The Codfather
January 10, 2017 12:42 - 32 minutes - 73.5 MBby Brendan Borrell Since his release from prison in the 1980s, Carlos Rafael has ruthlessly run his Massachusetts seafood business with little regard for the law. But is there any other way to survive the gauntlet of restrictions on the New England fishing industry?
The Whale Dying On The Mountain
January 10, 2017 02:37 - 22 minutes - 20.6 MBby J.B. MacKinnon As the Comox Glacier disappears so does part of the local culture.
Secret History Of Bioluminescence
January 10, 2017 02:32 - 13 minutes - 12.5 MBby Ferris Jabr Illuminating maps during war, guiding planes to safety, making genes and proteins visible—organisms get their glow on to help humans.