Hakai magazine
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Is Deforestation Supercharging Cyclones?
The airborne water cycle, destabilized by industrial logging and other land use, may be a hidden force behind growing superstorms.
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How to Decolonize Conservation
Drawing on examples from existing conservation projects and their own experiences, Indigenous researchers are unpacking what a decolonized approach to environmental protection should look...
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Letting the Sea Have Its Way
Welcome to Selsey, a community that welcomed back the marsh.
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Making a Marsh out of a Mud Pile
In San Francisco Bay, scientists are looking for a better way to rebuild flagging marshland.
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First Nations Test the Political Water with Fish Farm Protests
First Nations’ occupations of fish farms are rooted in a deeper conversation about Indigenous land rights.
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Tribes Use Western and Indigenous Science to Prepare for Climate Change
Northwestern tribes and the University of Washington climate group have joined forces to help protect salmon, roots, trees, and other important resources.
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Designing Marine Protected Areas in a Changing Climate
How can vulnerable marine species be protected when climate change is a reality?
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Canada Has New Rules Governing Its Marine Protected Areas. Do They Go Far Enough?
Fisheries and Oceans Canada cites public backlash as one of the motivating factors for changing the rules governing marine protected areas.
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Is Canada Taking Shortcuts to Hit Its Marine Protection Targets?
The government is counting fisheries closures as protected spaces in order to hit a 2020 target. Many scientists argue this is not meaningful conservation.
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Proposed Amendment Could Actually Protect Marine Protected Areas
New legislation would give planned MPAs interim protection during the years-long approval process.
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Canada’s New Marine (Less) Protected (Than It Could Have Been) Areas
A string of concessions to the oil and gas and fishing industries has severely weakened the protective value of Canada’s largest planned marine protected...
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The Consequences of China’s Booming Demand for Seafood
The country is putting restrictions on its domestic fishing fleet, but its distant water fleet has been growing to compensate.
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Is China’s Hands-Off Approach to Fisheries Producing More Fish?
China’s fishers indiscriminately target predators as well as prey, putting different pressures on the ecosystem.
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A Cull to Save the Kelp
An innovative project is rehabilitating California’s kelp forests after decades of degradation at the hands of environmental decay and sea urchin predation.