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Hakai Magazine · 2/1/24

Cute, curious, and clever—octopuses have a huge fan base. They are sartorially delightful, changing colors as they travel the ocean floor. Like children, they seem to enjoy playing with balls. And they’re smart enough to twist open jars for treats...

Hakai Magazine · 2/1/24

A century ago, as many as two million African penguins flourished on the rocky shores of what we now call South Africa and Namibia. There, the chilly Atlantic Ocean encounters the warm Indian Ocean, causing...

Hakai Magazine · 2/1/24

The underwater microphone first picked up the distinctive ping around 4:00 a.m. In the water off Hawai‘i, there it was: the unknown whale’s signature call. Jennifer McCullough, a biologist with the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...

Hakai Magazine · 2/1/24

This story was originally published by Grist, in partnership with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and is reproduced here as part...

Hakai Magazine · 2/1/24

The sun sits low in the sky as David Borbón walks from one young mangrove to another, treading carefully so as not to disturb their roots. A golden glow lights the plants as he delicately checks for flowers and new growth, removing strands of dried...

Hakai Magazine · 2/1/24

Scores of tropical fish, a substantial shark population, and colorful coral draw thousands of tourists to Mexico’s Cabo Pulmo National Park each month. That is, except from March through August 2020, when restrictions aimed at stemming the spread of...

Hakai Magazine · 2/1/24

Green sea turtle hatchlings must make a perilous...

Hakai Magazine · 2/1/24

A livestock truck arrives on a wintry swath of grassland called the Tarutino Steppe in southern Ukraine. When the metal doors on the trailer swing open on this cold night, what emerges is not weaponry or munitions but a herd of donkeys: a type of...

Hakai Magazine · 2/1/24

The cannon wasn’t built for herring—which might explain why it exploded.

On a September day in 1805, Thomas Gifford lugged a cannon onto the village green in Falmouth, Massachusetts. The 27-year-old stuffed the barrel with river herring and lit the...

Hakai Magazine · 2/1/24

Research comparing salmon farming regulations in four countries finds that Canada’s rules fall short when it comes to protecting wild fish populations from one of the key threats posed by aquaculture: sea lice infestations.

In a...

Hakai Magazine · 2/1/24

In 2015, fisheries managers monitoring Atlantic herring in the waters off the United States and Canada made a grave miscalculation. Things were looking good for the multimillion-dollar fishery: adult herring in the Gulf of Maine and the Bay of Fundy...

Hakai Magazine · 2/1/24

This story was originally published by High Country News, a magazine about the American West’s environment and...

Hakai Magazine · 2/1/24

When a natural disaster strikes, renters are screwed. In addition to damaged infrastructure, flooding, and trauma following a severe storm, tenants can face the looming threat of unaffordable rent—and even eviction. New research shows that renters, who...

Hakai Magazine · 2/1/24

At the end of a fulfilling day spent photographing...

Hakai Magazine · 2/1/24

This article provides an update to the story “The Dogs That Grew Wool and the People Who Love Them,” published in 2021, which discusses a small fluffy...

Hakai Magazine · 2/1/24

On one of her final days on Massachusetts’s Little Brewster Island, Sally Snowman, the only remaining official lighthouse keeper in the United States, went ambling over the rocky terrain to caw into the wind with the gulls and say a blessing. She...

Hakai Magazine · 2/1/24

Scientists who study animals sternly warn their trainees about the dangers of describing research subjects in human terms. Sometimes, though, the parallels are impossible to ignore. “Human beings and seabirds are very different, but there are some...

Hakai Magazine · 2/1/24

Every fall, more than 900 recreational anglers in Texas gather their gear and wade into the blood-warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico for Sharkathon. In this four-day catch-and-release shark fishing tournament, anglers vie to land the biggest shark they...

Hakai Magazine · 2/1/24

The waves were clean and curling one day about ten years ago when surfer Will Rose stepped into the water at Ocean Beach in San Diego, California. Midway through his session, Rose, an experienced surfer then in his mid-20s, spotted a young surfer...

koitalk2021 · 2/1/24

Over the past two years since we’ve been producing Koi Talk magazine and distributing it to our subscribers we have often been inundated with customers asking us if they were able to buy the Koi in the appreciation sections or if we were able to source...

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