Are COVID-19 Lockdowns Really Causing Nature to Heal?
May 26, 2021 · Share. Article body copy. As the COVID-19 pandemic took hold last spring and people around the world went into lockdown, a certain type of news story started to spring up—the idea that, in the absence of people, nature was returning to a healthier, more pristine state.
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Why We Can’t Shake Ambergris - Hakai Magazine
Aug 17, 2021 · Ambergris has also featured in great works of literature, including Moby Dick. Herman Melville devoted a whole chapter to it. “Who would think, then, that such fine ladies and gentlemen should regale themselves with an essence found in the inglorious bowels of a sick whale!” he wrote.
How the Ocean Inside the Mantle Affects the Habitability of the …
Jun 15, 2022 · The Earth’s oceans have risen and fallen over the millennia. But they have, on average, been relatively stable over billions of years. The balance of the deep water cycle—the exchange of water between the Earth’s surface and its interior—has an important role to play in maintaining that stability.
Iceland’s Confusing Inter-cetacean Conflict | Hakai Magazine
Sep 23, 2021 · Share. Article body copy. Filipa Samarra could hear the pilot whales before she could see them. In 2015, out on the choppy waters off southern Iceland, Samarra and her research team were eavesdropping on a group of killer whales.
Petrifying Climate Change - Hakai Magazine
Jun 3, 2021 · Share. Article body copy. A new method for combatting climate change feels like a bit of modern-day alchemy: scientists have figured out how to take carbon dioxide out of the ocean and turn it into harmless rock.
The Very Hungry Urchins - Hakai Magazine
Jul 30, 2024 · “Their larval stage is extremely sensitive,” Patterson adds. He’s grown other types of urchins in an ordinary bucket, but Diadema need special care and superb water quality. Once, unclean water sickened a batch of larvae; a veterinarian prescribed antibiotics and a full change of the water, which helped the larvae recover.
The Republic of Cows | Hakai Magazine
Aug 15, 2023 · Patrick Saltonstall, a cheerful, fit 57-year-old with a head of tousled gray curls, is an archaeologist with the Alutiiq Museum in Kodiak. He’s accompanying photographer Shanna Baker and me to Chirikof—but he’s left us on the dock while he checks in at the veterinarian’s where he has taken his sick dog, a lab named Brewster.
Treasure Fever - Hakai Magazine
Jan 14, 2020 · La Trinité set sail for what is now Florida in 1565—a full half-century before pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock—leading a fleet of six other ships and guided by Captain Jean Ribault, who operated under the order of King Charles IX of France. The fleet was packed with munitions, gold, silver, supplies, livestock, and nearly 1,000 soldiers, seamen, and French Huguenot colonists ...
Meet the Killer Whales You Thought You Knew | Hakai Magazine
Killer whales traverse all the world’s oceans, from polar waters to the tropics. They are the seas’ apex predators, described in scientific literature in 1869 as “wolves of the ocean,” who swim “in small companies” while “living by violence and plunder.”