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5 days ago · The coast is a hazardous place. On top of wild weather you might have to contend with geological hazards like earthquakes, tsunamis, and landslides. See more at hakai.org. Made next to the 🌊 in Victoria, Canada - ISSN 2371-5790. Part …
Why We Can’t Shake Ambergris - Hakai Magazine
Aug 17, 2021 · In December 2020, British woman Jodie Crews posted photos online of a mysterious object she’d found at a beach. One helpful respondent suggested poking the object with a hot pin to see if it smoked, a common (if unreliable) test for ambergris. Crews did, and the object exploded into flames, setting fire to her kitchen.
Salvaging Fossils on the Jurassic Coast | Hakai Magazine
May 26, 2020 · The work of exposing ancient creatures from surrounding rock takes extreme precision. A boy walks out of a fossil and curio shop owned by longtime collector Barry Titchener. The shop was used as the setting for Mary Anning’s fossil business on the set of the upcoming biopic about the Lyme Regis–based fossil collector.
Are COVID-19 Lockdowns Really Causing Nature to Heal?
May 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 Venice, Italy, and pumas in the streets ...
How the Ocean Inside the Mantle Affects the Habitability of the …
Jun 15, 2022 · Much as the cycling of water between the atmosphere, glaciers, lakes, rivers, aquifers, and the ocean affects the level of the sea, the abundance of rain, and the frequency of drought, the exchange of water between the mantle and the surface also dictates the habitability of the Earth. Scientists already know that water can be dragged down to ...
The Island That Humans Can’t Conquer | Hakai Magazine
Oct 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.
Where Camels Take to the Sea - Hakai Magazine
Sep 22, 2020 · But here, along the coastal fringes of Gujarat, India, the ships of the desert actually take to the sea. The first two camels glide across the channel, departing a low-slung island half a kilometer from our bow, and slowly rise at the mainland shore. On knobby knees, they proceed across a broad, salt-encrusted plain.
What Whale Barnacles Know - Hakai Magazine
Nov 9, 2021 · Each of these barnacles has a shell structure specially evolved to anchor itself into its host’s flesh. Many species have chambers within their wall plates into which prongs of whale skin grow upward, strengthening the barnacle’s grip. Individual whales have been known to collect up to 450 kilograms of barnacles.
Iceland’s Confusing Inter-cetacean Conflict | Hakai Magazine
Sep 23, 2021 · Interactions between killer and pilot whales have only been scientifically documented a few times, and Samarra is among the first scientists to have observed this behavior in Iceland. Since the 2015 encounter, she’s seen similar interactions around 20 times. Iceland’s pilot whales may be assuming that the killer whales in the area, which ...
The Mysterious, Vexing, and Utterly Engrossing Search for the …
Sep 13, 2022 · In the fourth century BCE, Aristotle proclaimed that eels spontaneously generated within “the entrails of the earth” and that they didn’t have genitals. The no-genital theory held for generations. Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder asserted that eels rubbed against rocks and their dead skin “scrapings come to life.”.