Saving a Sea Monkey Sanctuary
As the Great Salt Lake in Utah shrinks, locals are working to preserve its critical brine shrimp fishery—along with the other entities that flourish in the lake’s strange, saline beauty.
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Meet the Killer Whales You Thought You Knew
The iconic marine mammals may not belong to one species but several. Surprise!
Light at the End of the Tunnel
Millions of killer culverts lurk beneath North American roadways, strangling populations of migratory fish. Now with a nationwide project, the United States is trying to fix them.
The Water Is Eating the Island
Villagers hang onto the last patch of Sierra Leone’s Nyangai Island, knowing that their home may soon disappear.
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To BOLDly Go
Scientists around the world are on a mission to catalog all of Earth’s multicellular lifeforms in one giant DNA library, and Hakai scientists are helping to stock the shelves
Weird, Rare, and Everywhere
In the bogs of Hecate Island, British Columbia, a writer and novice naturalist joins researchers for a glimpse of a multiyear biodiversity mission—and gets acquainted with some odd organisms.
