Hakai Magazine Audio Edition
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 134:23:25
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Synopsis
Hakai Magazine explores science, society, and the environment from a coastal perspective. This audio edition showcases readings of our long-form feature stories. New episodes are typically published Tuesdays.
Episodes
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The Mysterious Decline of Iceland’s American Invader
06/06/2018 Duration: 17minby Gloria Dickie • In Iceland, imported mink escaped fur farms and feasted their way through the food web—until nature bit back.
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What History Gives, the Sea Steals
22/05/2018 Duration: 13minby Elizabeth Preston • In Scotland and around the world, archaeologists rush to understand ancient sites that climate change is both revealing and washing away.
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Row, Row, Row Your Coat
15/05/2018 Duration: 10minby Michael Engelhard • In Victorian England, re-engineered rain cloaks, umbrellas, and walking sticks floated adventurers down the Thames and, eventually, into the Arctic.
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When Mountains Fall into the Sea
01/05/2018 Duration: 19minby Tyee Bridge • As glaciers melt, unstable slopes are being exposed and are on the precipice of collapse.
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The Oil Spill Cleanup Illusion
24/04/2018 Duration: 16minby Andrew Nikiforuk • Why do we pretend to clean up oil spills in the ocean?
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The Local-Carb Diet
17/04/2018 Duration: 26minby Madeline Ostrander • Dedicated Pacific Northwest plant lovers nurture an indigenous food with ancient roots.
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Defenders of the Forgotten Fish
10/04/2018 Duration: 19minby Ben Goldfarb • Tribes of the Columbia River watershed are hustling to keep the Pacific lamprey alive, one fish at a time.
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When Whales and Humans Talk
03/04/2018 Duration: 22minby Krista Langlois • Arctic people have been communicating with cetaceans for centuries—and scientists are finally taking note.
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The Mysterious Disappearance of Keith Davis
27/03/2018 Duration: 32minby 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.
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How Ancient Rome’s 1% Hijacked the Beach
19/03/2018 Duration: 17minby Heather Pringle • The rich, the poor, and the battle for the Bay of Naples.
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Weapons of War Litter the Ocean Floor
12/03/2018 Duration: 21minby Andrew Curry • At least one million tonnes of chemical weapons were dumped in the oceans between 1919 and 1980. Now what?
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The Long, Knotty, World-Spanning Story of String
06/03/2018 Duration: 19minby Ferris Jabr • String is far more important than the wheel in the pantheon of inventions.
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Lord of the ’Rhynchs
27/02/2018 Duration: 26minby Adrienne Mason • There and back again: a taxonomist’s quest to reveal the world’s tiniest realms.
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A Sunken Bridge the Size of a Continent
19/02/2018 Duration: 21minby 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.
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Hawai‘i’s Last Outlaw Hippies
14/02/2018 Duration: 33minby Brendan Borrell • After half a century, the counterculture squatters of Kalalau Valley are facing a final eviction.
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The Trees That Sail to Sea
06/02/2018 Duration: 25minby Brian Payton • In one of nature’s remarkable second acts, dead trees become driftwood and embark on transformative journeys.
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Eel of Fortune
30/01/2018 Duration: 27minby Karen Pinchin • Against a backdrop of competing cultural and commercial interests, Canadian regulators will soon spin the wheel on the future of the little-understood American eel.
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The Noose Beneath the Waves
23/01/2018 Duration: 31minby Sasha Chapman • Fishing gear can pose a deadly threat to whales—and to those who try to save them.
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Why Iceland Is Turning Purple
16/01/2018 Duration: 17minby Egill Bjarnason • Buoyed by climate change, an invasive plant is taking over the landscape of the island nation.
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Twilight for the Sawfish
08/01/2018 Duration: 22minby Jori Lewis • In West Africa, the sawfish was once a source of cultural pride and power. What happens to traditional African cultures as it disappears?