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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Fish Feel Pain. Now What?
02/01/2018 Duration: 23minby Ferris Jabr • Terrestrial animals get humane treatment and legal protections, but until now, fish pain has largely been ignored.
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Fish, Drugs, and Murder
12/12/2017 Duration: 19minby Alexander Villegas • For years, Costa Rica was synonymous with tourism, sustainability, and biodiversity. Now collapsing fisheries have led to turmoil.
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Quick Sand, Dirty Money
05/12/2017 Duration: 23minStory by Kimon de Greef • Illegal sand mining in South Africa is starving beaches of sand, ruining rivers, and endangering lives.
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The Hunger Games: Two Killer Whales, Same Sea, Different Diets
28/11/2017 Duration: 23minby Larry Pynn • The Salish Sea’s resident killer whales are in trouble—and garnering all the headlines—but transient killer whales traveling the same waters seem to be doing fine.
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Death by Killer Algae
21/11/2017 Duration: 25minby Claudia Geib • When 343 sei whales died from a harmful algal bloom in Chilean Patagonia, they opened a window into the effect changing climate is having on marine mammals, our oceans, and us.
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Landlocked Islanders
14/11/2017 Duration: 27minby Krista Langlois • Can Marshall Islanders whose lives are tied to the sea maintain their culture in Oklahoma?
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The Ecolabel Fable
07/11/2017 Duration: 31minby Raina Delisle • Buyer beware: sustainable seafood programs can’t guarantee ocean-friendly choices.
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The Scientist Who Reads a Lost History in the Mud
01/11/2017 Duration: 23minby Ann Finkbeiner • Hard working and tough as nails, Grace Brush did what others couldn’t—she teased out the mystery of the Chesapeake Bay.
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Damming Eden
24/10/2017 Duration: 19minby Emilienne Malfatto • As a massive dam nears completion in Turkey, residents downriver in the idyllic Mesopotamian Marshes prepare to see their homeland destroyed—again.
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Death of a Modern Wolf
17/10/2017 Duration: 29minby J.B. MacKinnon • Once feared, vilified, and exterminated, the wolves of Vancouver Island face an entirely different threat: our fascination, our presence, and our selfies.
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From Prejudice to Pride
10/10/2017 Duration: 44minby Jude Isabella • In the 20th century, Japanese anthropologists and officials tried to hide the existence of the Indigenous Ainu. Then the Ainu fought back like their cousins, the bears.
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Whales Through a New Lens
02/10/2017 Duration: 24minby Erich Hoyt • Forty years ago, the world’s whale researchers met in Indiana. The now legendary, but nearly forgotten, meeting changed the way scientists and the public see whales—and it all started with a few photographs.
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Saving the Ocean One Outfit at a Time
26/09/2017 Duration: 20minby Heather Pringle and Amorina Kingdon • The sea suffers for fashion. Kombucha leather and leased jeans to the rescue.
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Avoiding Extinction
20/09/2017 Duration: 34minby Sarah Gilman • Giving Mexico’s rarest porpoise, the vaquita, a fighting chance in the face of poverty, corruption, and greed.
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Sand? Mine!
13/09/2017 Duration: 28minby Tyee Bridge • Our insatiable need for concrete has led to destructive mining around the world. How can we do it better?
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The Oral History of Toothless Whales
29/08/2017 Duration: 17minby Jennifer S. Holland Baleen whales carry their medical records in their mouths.
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Blasting Through the Hunley Mystery
23/08/2017 Duration: 19minby Evan Lubofsky A maverick scientist claims she has done what scores of researchers before her failed to do: solve the century-old mystery of why a legendary Civil War submarine sank.
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The Great Quake and the Great Drowning
22/08/2017 Duration: 19minby Ann Finkbeiner Mega-quakes have periodically rocked North America’s Pacific Northwest. Indigenous people told terrifying stories about the devastation but refused to leave.
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The Power of Compassion
15/08/2017 Duration: 14minby Elin Kelsey Why humpback whales rescue seals and why volunteering for beach cleanups improves your health.
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Peeping in on the Mile Deep Club
08/08/2017 Duration: 14minby Eloise Gibson Braving an Antarctic winter to catch Chilean sea bass in the act.