Hakai Magazine Audio Edition

by Julia Rosen • Inuit in Canada and Greenland want to protect an ecological wonder—a massive Arctic polynya—at the center of their world. The original story, along with photos and maps, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.

by 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. The original story, along with photos and videos, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.

by Hannah Hindley • Originally built as a gateway to space colonization, Biosphere 2 has a new purpose: to breed supercorals strong enough to survive swiftly changing seas. First, scientists must revive the simulated ocean. The original story, along with photos, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.

by 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? The original story, along with photos and videos, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.

by Brian Owens • Lost fishing gear keeps on doing the job it was designed for long after its owners are gone. The original story, along with photos, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.

by Raina Delisle • An ingenious Indigenous fishing technology with spiritual significance is making a comeback. The original story, along with photos, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.

by Katharine Gammon • It’s dangerous to blame the decline of one species on a single predator. We humans like to do it anyway. The original story, along with photos, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.

by Jude Isabella • The human-bear bond is ancient, but across the northern hemisphere, only a few societies remember the art of neighboring bears. The original story, along with photos and videos, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.

by Paul Hockenos • How Norway is using oil and gas riches to engineer a future in emission-free seafaring. The original story, along with photos and videos, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.

by Brian Payton • On Vancouver Island, a hermit-priest has spent a lifetime contemplating the natural world. At 95, he has come to believe there is a way we can save it.

by 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.

by Geoffrey Giller • Scientists in the emerging field of conservation paleobiology believe that the key to oyster conservation could be contained in ancient shells.

by Frances Backhouse • The British Columbia coastline once pulsed with action around salmon canneries. Today, guided by Indigenous leadership, only one cannery processing wild salmon remains.

by Edward Struzik • As the climate changes, the Arctic Ocean beckons Pacific salmon and other species. How will we fish responsibly?

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 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 Elizabeth Preston • In Scotland and around the world, archaeologists rush to understand ancient sites that climate change is both revealing and washing away.