In Coastal British Columbia, the Haida Get Their Land Back
This widely circulated news feature from April focuses on the Gaayhllxid/Gíihlagalgang “Rising Tide” Haida Title Lands Agreement, in which the BC government formally recognizes the Haida Nation’s ownership of all the lands of Haida Gwaii.
What the Heck Is Seaweed Mining?
The US Department of Energy has awarded US $5-million to three ventures investigating whether seaweed can serve as a practical source of critical materials, such as platinum and rhodium, as well as rare earth elements like neodymium and yttrium.
Bats of the Midnight Sun
Active in daylight during the Arctic summer and hibernating during the long winter nights, Alaska’s little brown bats are a unique population. Can their niche lives help them avoid white-nose syndrome?
Peeking into the Ocean’s Microscopic Baby Boom
This photo essay captures some of the astonishing beauty of the smaller echelons of the food web. Researchers at the Hakai Institute’s Quadra Island Ecological Observatory, in British Columbia, spent over three years sampling and photographing zooplankton in the waters off Quadra Island’s eastern shore, a biologically bountiful region where the nutrient-rich outflow of glacial fjords meets the northern extent of the Salish Sea.
The Water Is Eating the Island
This powerful photo essay about sea level rise on a small island in Sierra Leone garnered the most web traffic for the magazine in March and was republished by The Atlantic.
Saving a Sea Monkey Sanctuary
As 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.
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. This perhaps unlikely story was the most republished article in March and earned a spotlight on Oregon Public Radio.