Slime, Shorebirds, and a Scientific Mystery
by Daniel Wood • Could the survival of millions of migrating shorebirds depend on the preservation of humble marine biofilm?
Jun 25, 2018•22 min•Ep. 75
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The Future of Castro’s Crocs
by Shanna Baker • As a breeding facility works to retain a pure lineage of the Cuban crocodile, out in the wild the division between species is getting murkier all the time.
Jun 19, 2018•23 min•Ep. 74
Evicted by Climate Change
by Madeline Ostrander • Government regulations forced the Yup’ik to give up their semi-nomadic existence. Now, as the land around them vanishes, they’re puzzling through the problem of moving.
Jun 11, 2018•28 min•Ep. 73
The Mysterious Decline of Iceland’s American Invader
by Gloria Dickie • In Iceland, imported mink escaped fur farms and feasted their way through the food web—until nature bit back.
Jun 06, 2018•17 min•Ep. 72
A Fish Called Rockweed
by Ben Goldfarb • In Maine, a strange legal debate is raging over rights to the state’s most important seaweed.
May 29, 2018•18 min•Ep. 71
What History Gives, the Sea Steals
by Elizabeth Preston • In Scotland and around the world, archaeologists rush to understand ancient sites that climate change is both revealing and washing away.
May 22, 2018•13 min•Ep. 70
Row, Row, Row Your Coat
by Michael Engelhard • In Victorian England, re-engineered rain cloaks, umbrellas, and walking sticks floated adventurers down the Thames and, eventually, into the Arctic.
May 15, 2018•10 min•Ep. 69
Training the Polar Bear Patrol
by Eva Holland • A grassroots guard learns how to keep people and polar bears safe in a small Arctic community.
May 08, 2018•14 min•Ep. 68
When Mountains Fall into the Sea
by Tyee Bridge • As glaciers melt, unstable slopes are being exposed and are on the precipice of collapse.
May 01, 2018•20 min•Ep. 67
The Oil Spill Cleanup Illusion
by Andrew Nikiforuk • Why do we pretend to clean up oil spills in the ocean?
Apr 24, 2018•17 min•Ep. 66
The Local-Carb Diet
by Madeline Ostrander • Dedicated Pacific Northwest plant lovers nurture an indigenous food with ancient roots.
Apr 17, 2018•26 min•Ep. 65
Defenders of the Forgotten Fish
by Ben Goldfarb • Tribes of the Columbia River watershed are hustling to keep the Pacific lamprey alive, one fish at a time.
Apr 10, 2018•19 min•Ep. 64
When Whales and Humans Talk
by Krista Langlois • Arctic people have been communicating with cetaceans for centuries—and scientists are finally taking note.
Apr 03, 2018•22 min•Ep. 63
The Mysterious Disappearance of Keith Davis
by Sarah Tory • The unsettling disappearance of a fisheries observer sparks questions about safety on the high seas and the fate of the fish stocks observers attempt to monitor.
Mar 27, 2018•32 min•Ep. 62
How Ancient Rome’s 1% Hijacked the Beach
by Heather Pringle • The rich, the poor, and the battle for the Bay of Naples.
Mar 19, 2018•18 min•Ep. 61
Weapons of War Litter the Ocean Floor
by Andrew Curry • At least one million tonnes of chemical weapons were dumped in the oceans between 1919 and 1980. Now what?
Mar 12, 2018•21 min•Ep. 60
The Long, Knotty, World-Spanning Story of String
by Ferris Jabr • String is far more important than the wheel in the pantheon of inventions.
Mar 06, 2018•19 min•Ep. 59
Lord of the ’Rhynchs
by Adrienne Mason • There and back again: a taxonomist’s quest to reveal the world’s tiniest realms.
Feb 27, 2018•26 min•Ep. 58
A Sunken Bridge the Size of a Continent
by Krista Langlois, Heather Pringle • A remote Arctic land may hold a vital missing chapter from human history. The only problem? It disappeared at the end of the last ice age.
Feb 19, 2018•22 min•Ep. 57
Hawai‘i’s Last Outlaw Hippies
by Brendan Borrell • After half a century, the counterculture squatters of Kalalau Valley are facing a final eviction.
Feb 14, 2018•33 min•Ep. 56
The Trees That Sail to Sea
by Brian Payton • In one of nature’s remarkable second acts, dead trees become driftwood and embark on transformative journeys.
Feb 06, 2018•25 min•Ep. 55
Eel of Fortune
by Karen Pinchin • Against a backdrop of competing cultural and commercial interests, Canadian regulators will soon spin the wheel on the future of the little-understood American eel.
Jan 30, 2018•27 min•Ep. 54
The Noose Beneath the Waves
by Sasha Chapman • Fishing gear can pose a deadly threat to whales—and to those who try to save them.
Jan 23, 2018•31 min•Ep. 53
Why Iceland Is Turning Purple
by Egill Bjarnason • Buoyed by climate change, an invasive plant is taking over the landscape of the island nation.
Jan 16, 2018•17 min•Ep. 52
Twilight for the Sawfish
by Jori Lewis • In West Africa, the sawfish was once a source of cultural pride and power. What happens to traditional African cultures as it disappears?
Jan 08, 2018•23 min•Ep. 51
Fish Feel Pain. Now What?
by Ferris Jabr • Terrestrial animals get humane treatment and legal protections, but until now, fish pain has largely been ignored.
Jan 02, 2018•24 min•Ep. 50
Fish, Drugs, and Murder
by Alexander Villegas • For years, Costa Rica was synonymous with tourism, sustainability, and biodiversity. Now collapsing fisheries have led to turmoil.
Dec 12, 2017•20 min•Ep. 49
Quick Sand, Dirty Money
Story by Kimon de Greef • Illegal sand mining in South Africa is starving beaches of sand, ruining rivers, and endangering lives.
Dec 05, 2017•24 min•Ep. 48
The Hunger Games: Two Killer Whales, Same Sea, Different Diets
by Larry Pynn • The Salish Sea’s resident killer whales are in trouble—and garnering all the headlines—but transient killer whales traveling the same waters seem to be doing fine.
Nov 28, 2017•23 min•Ep. 47
Death by Killer Algae
by Claudia Geib • When 343 sei whales died from a harmful algal bloom in Chilean Patagonia, they opened a window into the effect changing climate is having on marine mammals, our oceans, and us.
Nov 21, 2017•26 min•Ep. 46
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