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WEB3 days ago · As fall sets in, we follow our cast of wildlife characters as they go through a flurry of last-chance feasting and finding mates before the cold and wet of winter. See more at hakai.org. Hakai Magazine explores science, society, and the environment in compelling narratives that highlight coastal life and phenomena.
Scandinavia’s Missing Bronze-Age Boatyards | Hakai Magazine
WEBAug 7, 2024 · During the Nordic Bronze Age, from around 2000 to 500 BCE, commodities of all kinds flowed in and out of northern Europe through long-distance trade networks that stretched across the continent. That includes the era’s eponymous bronze, which evidence suggests was smelted from tin and copper mined as far afield as Spain and the British Isles.
Artificial Intelligence Could Soon Turn Anyone into an Expert Tracker
WEBAug 12, 2024 · Zoe Jewell, a British conservationist, has spent the past 13 years helping WildTrack develop an artificial intelligence–powered system to identify animals from pictures of their footprints. The work was inspired by Jewell’s experiences working alongside Zimbabweans tracking black rhinoceroses. So far, the AI tool can identify 17 animals ...
Are COVID-19 Lockdowns Really Causing Nature to Heal?
WEBMay 26, 2021 · Share. 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. There were viral reports of dolphins in the canals of …
Treasure Fever - Hakai Magazine
WEBJan 14, 2020 · They recovered over 18,000 silver coins. The world’s most famous explorer of the high seas, Mel Fisher, won rights to Spain’s Nuestra Señora de Atocha, which sunk near the Dry Tortugas islands, over 56 kilometers west of Key West, Florida, in 1622. The discovery was valued at nearly $400-million.
The Island That Humans Can’t Conquer | Hakai Magazine
WEBOct 6, 2020 · St. Matthew Island is said to be the most remote place in Alaska. Marooned in the Bering Sea halfway to Siberia, it is well over 300 kilometers and a 24-hour ship ride from the nearest human settlements. It looks fittingly forbidding, the way it emerges from its drape of fog like the dark spread of a wing.
With Ships, Birds Find an Easier Way to Travel | Hakai Magazine
WEBMar 16, 2023 · Last fall, hundreds of birders rushed to Bryher, a tiny island off the coast of Cornwall, England. They came to see a Blackburnian warbler, a bird with a flaming orange throat and a high-pitched, trilled song. Blackburnian warblers are hardly ever seen in the United Kingdom—their home is 4,800 kilometers away in the pine forests of North America.
Blue Holes Show Hurricane Activity in the Bahamas Is at a …
WEBJun 8, 2022 · The evidence that hurricane activity is at a historical low is hiding on the Caribbean seafloor, tucked away in odd geological features called blue holes. These open pits form in limestone, often above collapsed caverns. Prolonged erosion weathers the edges into an eerily circular shape. Blue holes are similar to sinkholes but on a …
The Art of Turning Fish into Leather - Hakai Magazine
WEBApr 28, 2020 · Every tonne of filleted fish amounts to about 40 kilograms of skins, which are often ground into animal feed or fertilizer, tossed into landfills, or thrown back into the sea. Globally, humans consumed the fillets of just under 150 million tonnes of fish in 2015. That’s equivalent to about six million tonnes of skins.
Death of a Modern Wolf - Hakai Magazine
WEBOct 17, 2017 · They were waiting for a wolf. They didn’t have to wait long. The wolf, a large, tawny male, emerged from the forest around noon, recognizable at a distance by the ruff of black fur that framed his face. Perhaps sensing the lurking human presence, he ducked back into the forest, just like any normal wolf should.