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When we launched nearly eight years ago, our vision for Hakai Magazine was to connect coastal citizens around the world. Whether you live in Brisbane, Australia, or Copenhagen, Denmark, Bella Bella, British Columbia, or Xai-Xai, Mozambique, we all share one thing in common: the ocean. We believe the magazine’s stories help foster these connections, but we want to hear more from you, our readers. So, we’re inviting you to share your coastlines with us, from your perspectives.
 
Starting this week, we’re launching a new section in this newsletter, From My Coast to Yours, where you can share a little slice of coastline with the Hakai Magazine community and explore the backyards of fellow readers from far-flung locales. Show us the shorelines where you work, play, and relax; teach us about the place, the culture, or the creatures.
 
I’m kicking things off with a snapshot of a spot I traverse regularly each summer (you’ll find it down below). To participate, just reply to this newsletter with a photo and a brief blurb describing the image or what makes the place special to you. I look forward to seeing your favorite stretches of coastline!
 
Dave Garrison
Publisher
 
 
 
This Week’s Stories
 
 
Banking on the Seaweed Rush
 
Seaweed farmers promise to feed us, combat climate change, support coastal communities, provide wildlife habitat, and more. Can seaweed do it all?
 
by Nicola Jones • 2,800 words / 14 mins
 
 
 
The Lion, the Land Bridge, and the New World
 
Whatever happened to North America’s lions?
 
by Devon Bidal • 950 words / 4 mins
 
 
 
The Toxic Threat in Thawing Permafrost
 
Scientists are tracking neurotoxic methylmercury production in North America’s largest peatland.
 
by Christian Elliott • 1,100 words / 5 mins
 
 
 
With Ships, Birds Find an Easier Way to Travel
 
Why fly all the way across the ocean when you can chill out by the pool?
 
by Ute Eberle • 800 words / 4 mins
 
 
 
In Graphic Detail: Sharks in Parks
 
Some marine reserves are unintentionally helping coastal sharks thrive.
 
by Brishti Basu • 350 words / 2 mins
 
 
 
 
What We’re Reading
 

Everybody loves puffins! But in Vestmannaeyjabaer, a coastal Icelandic town, people adore them. Every year, residents of all ages come together to rescue the baby Atlantic puffins that get distracted by city lights and lose their way. (Smithsonian)

 

A scientist at the Royal BC Museum on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, has been studying the fossil remains of a 75-million-year-old turtle found in a river up the coast. A forthcoming paper will provide information about this turtle, which likely belongs to a new species. (Chek News) 

 

Are you my mother? A baby whale spotted off the coast of Iceland would certainly like to know. In 2021, scientists were left scratching their heads after seeing a female killer whale swimming with an adopted—or abducted—young pilot whale. (The Guardian

 

one-story house built in 1976 has crumbled into the ocean off Rodanthe, North Carolina, marking the fourth home collapse in the community since 2022. The owners will be responsible for all cleanup. Rodanthe loses about four meters of beach annually to severe coastal erosion, and oceanfront houses in the region have been collapsing into the sea since 2020. (Washington Post, Business Insider)

 

In 2014, amateur divers recovered a silk dress from the wreckage of a merchant ship that sank around the year 1650 off the coast of Texel, an island in the Netherlands. The gown was almost perfectly preserved, and now the search is on for answers about its former owner. (New York Times)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
From My Coast to Yours
 
 
Summer sunset in the Salish Sea
We have family on Pender Island, British Columbia, which is part of the Gulf Islands in the Canadian waters of the Salish Sea, just a forty minute ferry ride from my home in Victoria. This short voyage is a regular part of our year, but trips in the summer can feel like being on a cruise. On one particularly beautiful August evening last summer, the sun was setting behind Saltspring Island, giving us a sublime show as we approached our destination.—Dave Garrison
 
See where the photo was taken on Google Maps.
 
Submit your coastal snapshots for inclusion in the newsletter by replying to this email.
 
 
 
 
In November 2021, British Columbia experienced a storm for the ages—an atmospheric river that unleashed the most costly disaster in the province’s history. But nowhere experienced the flood like the Nicola River, as J. B. MacKinnon recounts in “The Demon River.”
 
 
 
 
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