Hakai Magazine
Dec 27, 2024 · This site archives ten years of award-winning journalism from Hakai Magazine, which ceased publishing at the end of 2024.The team behind the publication is continuing to publish new stories about oceans and coasts around the world at bioGraphic.
What’s Next for Deep-Sea Mining? | Hakai Magazine
Dec 18, 2024 · Throughout 2024, the ISA worked overtime grappling with unanswered questions around the environmental impacts of mining. For instance, countries have not fully resolved what counts as “serious harm” to the marine environment, much less what level of harm regulators are willing to permit. To finish the Mining Code, “a lot of compromises need to be made,” says Pradeep Singh, a legal ...
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.
The Audacious Scheme to Reroute India’s Water - Hakai Magazine
Jun 20, 2024 · India is routinely hit by devastating floods. To prevent the country’s rivers from overtopping their banks, the government is looking to reengineer how water flows around the nation.
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.
One Great Shot: Bluebottle Beauty | Hakai Magazine
Nov 22, 2024 · One Great Shot: Bluebottle Beauty Careful illumination helps showcase a bluebottle’s constituent bits, both above and below the water’s surface.
Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal is About to Go Big
Oct 7, 2024 · Capturing Carbon with Seaweed: What We Know, What We Don’t, and What We’re Totally Unsure About Towering underwater kelp forests are often likened to trees, but seaweed carbon sequestration is far more complex than in soil-bound ecosystems.
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 ...
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.
Migrating Seabirds Are Bringing Forever Chemicals into the Arctic
Oct 4, 2024 · Black-legged kittiwakes migrate from southerly latitudes to the Arctic, where they introduce forever chemicals into the food chain. Photo by Ashley Cooper pics/Alamy Stock Photo