Are Scientific Tracking Tags Hurting Wild Animals? | Hakai Magazine
New research shows telemetry tags may force seals to work harder and swim slower.| Hakai Magazine
New research shows telemetry tags may force seals to work harder and swim slower.| Hakai Magazine
One day in 1963, ecologist Bob Paine started plucking sea stars off rocks and tossing them into the sea. His study helped show how a species may be small in number but significant in its impact.| Hakai Magazine
A new survey of deepwater sea stars adds to observations of their coastal counterparts to unveil the full scale of the destruction caused by the epidemic.| Hakai Magazine
Researchers worry extreme voices in the conservation community may be overshadowing an evidence-based approach.| Hakai Magazine
We started Hakai Magazine over 10 years ago because the ocean and its coastlines needed a voice. No other outlet was exclusively covering issues at the interface of sea and land—or of the marine world in general. After all these ...| Hakai Magazine
When Arvid Pardo, a Maltese diplomat, took the floor at the United Nations General Assembly in New York in 1967 and began speaking at length on international law, the room was sparsely populated. Pardo was undeterred. The deep, dark ocean, ...| Hakai Magazine
When I first see the canoe, in May, it takes a moment to distinguish the long, shapely slab of cedar from the patch of earth that has spent more than a century trying to reclaim it. Covered in moss and ...| Hakai Magazine
Earlier this year, Leticia Carvalho, a Brazilian oceanographer and environmental policy expert, took the helm of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) as secretary general. The ISA, an intergovernmental body that governs what happens on the seafloor in international waters, is ...| Hakai Magazine
August 29, 2020, dawned clear over southwest Nova Scotia. In the cabin of his lobster boat, the Mystique Lady, Matthew Cope was chatting with the other members of his crew as they chugged out from shore. The vessel was bound ...| Hakai Magazine
Nearly 200 of us cram into Tarāwhai, a traditional wooden Māori meeting house, under the gaze of the ancestors and deities carved into the posts and walls. We’re here in the home of the Ngāti Tarāwhai tribe, in the middle ...| Hakai Magazine
I am sitting at a slick Manhattan waterfront restaurant on the banks of the East River, New York City, trying to decide why I find the caviar pizza on the menu so disturbing. Jonathan Haffmans, the executive chef of Industry ...| Hakai Magazine
Aquaculture is big business in Canada. In 2023, open-net-pen salmon farming in British Columbia alone produced 50,000 tonnes of fish worth just over US $350-million. But on June 30, 2029, the federal government’s long-looming ban on open-net-pen salmon farming is ...| Hakai Magazine
The North Sea is a hard place to love. It’s not the cold, or the silty gray-brown waters that seem to suck the brightness out of the sky that make it unappealing, it’s what people have done to it over ...| Hakai Magazine
Ready for a close-up? A colorful sea slug off Curaçao sure was.| Hakai Magazine
On a brisk August morning in Tasermiut Fjord, southern Greenland, I poke my head from the hatch of my family’s 13-meter sailboat to find frost on the deck and a cloudless sky. It’s weather that demands exploring. After my husband ...| Hakai Magazine
One of the killer whale’s most distinguishing features is its saddle patch: an area of gray or white coloration behind its dorsal fin. Each killer whale has a distinct saddle patch, just as humans have distinct fingerprints. Scientists and other ...| Hakai Magazine
The wooden fishing boat chugs across Comau Fjord, a finger of dark water wedged between the snowy peaks of Chilean Patagonia. A Chilean flag flaps in the wind above a hand-painted black cormorant on the bow. Inside the boat’s cabin, ...| Hakai Magazine
Each summer, thousands of bluebottles (also known as Portuguese man-of-wars) wash up along the shores of Sydney, Australia. These remarkable relatives of jellyfish are actually colonial organisms: each is made up of four kinds of specialized, interdependent bodies called zooids. ...| Hakai Magazine
One of the biggest mistakes novice children’s book writers make is to assume that a story must teach something. An overt message—share, don’t be a bully, eat your veggies—can make for a boring book. There can, of course, be a ...| Hakai Magazine
When I was a teenager in the mid-1990s, I had a friend whose family owned an unimproved lot on Dabob Bay, a bay off a fjord nestled deep in the southern Salish Sea, in Washington State. My group of friends, ...| Hakai Magazine
Removing dams from the Klamath River in Northern California seems like a clear win for fish and rivers. Why do some locals hate it?| Hakai Magazine
Hakai Magazine explores science, society, and the environment in compelling narratives that highlight coastal life and phenomena.| Hakai Magazine
Green hydrogen? More like electrification with extra steps.| Hakai Magazine
When disaster strikes along British Columbia’s coast, Indigenous rescuers are often the first on the scene. Government-led initiatives are now formally recognizing that work.| Hakai Magazine
Rats are less pestilent and more lovable than we think. Can we learn to live with them?| Hakai Magazine
A new study estimates how much microplastic is sprinkled into your food and the air.| Hakai Magazine
How often can you say that about an energy generation system?| Hakai Magazine
As the climate warms, popular coastal tourist haunts across Europe will be hit hard by extreme weather.| Hakai Magazine
Multinational companies funded a US $4.4-million carbon offset project. Senegalese locals did much of the work—and saw almost none of the money.| Hakai Magazine
With ecosystems increasingly squeezed by anthropogenic warming, even cleaning up pollution can cause problems.| Hakai Magazine
A centuries-old traditional whale hunt in the Faroe Islands remains in the crosshairs of animal rights activists.| Hakai Magazine
Tour boat operators and cruise ship captains face a growing hazard: tsunamis generated by collapsing cliffs. If disaster strikes, what should they do?| Hakai Magazine
In Washington State, scientists studying the Elwha River Delta in the decade since the dam came down have revealed lasting changes—and a healthier ecosystem.| Hakai Magazine
Green hydrogen production makes a lot of extra oxygen. Could we put it to work revitalizing the ocean?| Hakai Magazine
Each year, a staggering amount of fishing gear is discarded into the ocean.| Hakai Magazine
As dams come down on the Skutik River, the once-demonized alewife—a fish beloved by the Passamaquoddy—gets a second chance at life.| Hakai Magazine
How scientists, volunteers, and incarcerated women are finding hope and metamorphosis through supporting a struggling butterfly.| Hakai Magazine
The United States has big plans for wind energy—but a 1920s law is getting in the way of the rollout.| Hakai Magazine
As conflict rages around them, Ukrainian conservationists persevere in restoring the Danube Delta, one of Europe’s most prized ecosystems.| Hakai Magazine
For over a decade, Ana María and David have led their community to restore Mexico’s desert mangroves with dedication, experimentation, and plenty of heart.| Hakai Magazine
