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.
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.
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 ...
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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.
Blasting Through the Hunley Mystery | Hakai Magazine
Aug 1, 2017 · Share. Article body copy. Around 6:30 p.m. on February 17, 1864, eight men crammed into the Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley, a self-propelled metal tube attached to a bomb, and slipped quietly into the freezing black water off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina.The crew hand-cranked the sub more than six kilometers toward its target—the Union blockader USS Housatonic—and surfaced ...
Death of a Modern Wolf - Hakai Magazine
Oct 17, 2017 · Two months earlier, I had joined Todd Windle, Pacific Rim’s human-wildlife conflict specialist, for a walk in wolf country. As we prepared to set out, he armed himself with pepper spray—“like putting your seat belt on, like putting your bike helmet on”—and dropped various noisemakers into his pockets.
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.”
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.
Most Invasive Marine Species Swim Under the Radar
Jul 28, 2021 · Share. Article body copy. The first signs of trouble came in the mid-2000s. A strikingly beautiful, highly venomous animal called the lionfish—first spotted outside its native range in the Indo-Pacific in the 1980s—now seemed to be in every reef, mangrove forest, and seagrass meadow in the Caribbean.