All Episodes
Hakai Magazine Audio Edition — 405 episodes
The Fleet-Winged Ghosts of Greenland
The Secret Sex Lives of Deep, Dark Corals
For the Love of a Little Sea
Finding Food and Solace in the Intertidal
The Slow-Motion Destruction of Tortoises’ Slow-Motion Migration
The Coming Collision Between Whales and Tankers on British Columbia’s Coast
Where the Rivers Run Pink
Trapped in the Tide of Organized Crime
The Poachers Who Could Save Mexico’s Vaquita
Neighborhood Digs
The Big Baltic Bomb Cleanup
Safety and Seaplanes
Here a Bee, There a Bee, Everywhere a Wild Bee
Encounters with the Maverick Archaeologist of the Americas
The Very Hungry Urchins
Rebroadcast: Leviathans in the Harbor
The Social Cost of Carbon Credits
Blood in the Water, Food on the Table, Protestors on the Shore
The Owls Who Came From Away
The Estuary Smothered by a Thousand Logs
A Dose of Antacids, a Quaint British Bay, and a Public Relations Fiasco
A Step Forward in Stingray Science
Rebroadcast: The Rat Spill
Buying Baja
Not Too Wet To Burn
How Viking-Age Hunters Took Down the Biggest Animal on Earth
Rebroadcast: Ticked Off on Martha’s Vineyard
The Waning Reign of the Wetland Architect We Barely Know (Hint, Not a Beaver)
Rebroadcast: Wasted
Saving a Sea Monkey Sanctuary
Light at the End of the Tunnel
The Water Is Eating the Island
Bats of the Midnight Sun
Dammed but Not Doomed
The Butterfly Redemption
For Sale: Shark Jaw, Tiger Claw, Fish Maw
Rebroadcast: A Visit with the Glacier Squad
In Nome, Where the Muskoxen Roam … Controversially
Rebroadcast: Searching for Keith
The Secrets of the Sea Hidden High in the Andes
Rebroadcast: What I Wish My Father Had Taught Me About Fishing
How To Love An Oyster
How Terrestrial Turds Lead to Marine Maladies
Bonus Episode: The Sound Aquatic Episode 5
Bonus Episode: The Sound Aquatic Episode 4
Bonus Episode: The Sound Aquatic Episode 3
Bonus Episode: The Sound Aquatic Episode 2
Bonus Episode: The Sound Aquatic Episode 1
Rebroadcast: Fish Below Your Feet and Other Solutions for a Living Harbor
Fighting for Wildlife in a Time of War
Rebroadcast: The Tough Sell of Turtle-Saving Tech
All the Fish We Cannot See
The Naturalist and the Wonderful, Lovable, So Good, Very Bold Jay
Rebroadcast: How Animals Code Their Kids for Survival
Rāhui and the Art of Marine Conservation
Rebroadcast: Reassessing Seal Rescue
The Legal Fishery Sparking Arrests and Violence
The Details Are in the Devil’s Tumors
In Defense of the Rat
Devils Go to Prison
The Sea Eagles That Returned to Mull
Detective McDavitt and the Curious Case of the Clown Wedgefish
Loose Lips Save Sunken Ships
The Republic of Cows
Rebroadcast: Born to Swim
Rebroadcast: Caamaño: The Sound of (Whale) Music
When Deep-Sea Miners Come A-Courting
A River Runs Above Us
Bonus episode: The Demon River
The Problem with Boating’s High-Fiberglass Diet
Rebroadcast: The Basketmaker
Rebroadcast: Hey Beacher, Leave Those Fish Alone
The Coolest Library on Earth
Marine Protected Areas, Explained
Huh, Our Fake Beach Is Good for Sharks
Rebroadcast: The Great Dolphin Dilemma
Rebroadcast: The Gnawing Question of Saltwater Beavers
Rebroadcast: Deer Wars: The Forest Awakens
The Foul Chartreuse Sea
Shining the Light on Baby Crabs
I Dare You to Stop Proliferating Fossil Fuels
Rebroadcast: The Curious Case of Bermuda’s Mysterious Turtle
Gone to the Dogs
Rebroadcast: The Risky Fame of a Rare Island Wildcat
Cruise Ship Invasion
Banking on the Seaweed Rush
Rebroadcast: Why Does Halibut Cost So Much?
Rebroadcast: The Cavernous World under the Woods
In Cod’s Shadow, Redfish Rise
Rebroadcast: The Hidden Coastal Culture of the Ancient Maya
Giving Bambi the Boot
In Norway, Whale Watchers Churn a “Soup of Chaos”
Rebroadcast: The Halibut Hook Revival
Farmer, the World May Not Be Your Oyster
The Fishadelphia Story
How We Came to Know and Fear the Doomsday Glacier
Herschel, the Very Hungry Sea Lion
Rebroadcast: In the Kingdom of the Bears
Unearthing the Original Mediterranean Diet
Mumbai Embraces Its Booming Flamingo Population
Is Sausage the Missing Link in the Great Bait Debate?
The Price of Paper
Welcoming Herring Home
The Marine Lab in the Path of Fury
Climate Activists Are Waging a New Kind of Legal Fight
Murder at Sea
Something’s Jellyfishy in the State of Italy
Surf and Turf: Saving a Wave by Protecting the Land
A Moonshot for Coral Breeding Was Successful
Philadephia’s Diatom Archive Is a Way, Way, Wayback Machine
The Mysterious, Vexing, and Utterly Engrossing Search for the Origin of Eels
Rebroadcast: Kelly the Sassy Dolphin
Rebroadcast: Letting Go of Paradise
North Carolina’s Oysters Come Out of Their Shell
Rebroadcast: Of Roe, Rights, and Reconciliation
Romance, Politics, and Ecological Damage: The Saga of Sable Island’s Wild Horses
Living in a Doomed Paradise Where the Sea Consumes Cottages, Cliffs, and the A&W Drive-Thru
The Controversial Plan to Unleash the Mississippi
Rebroadcast: Groomed to Death
A Community’s Quest to Document Every Species on Their Island Home
And Then the Sea Glowed a Magnificent Milky Green
Warning! Signs Are Not Enough to Save Beachgoers from Deadly Currents
Bonus Episode: Salt, Sweat, and Grit
The Paradox of Salmon Hatcheries, Part 4 of 4 — Tribal Hatcheries and the Road to Restoration
The Paradox of Salmon Hatcheries, Part 3 of 4 — The Hail Mary Hatcheries
The Paradox of Salmon Hatcheries, Part 2 of 4 — Too Many Pinks in the Pacific
The Paradox of Salmon Hatcheries, Part 1 of 4 — The Hatchery Crutch: How We Got Here
It’s 10 PM. Do You Know Where Your Cat Is?
Surviving the Race to Alaska
How the Shipping Industry Sails through Legal Loopholes
The Queen Conch’s Gambit
Rebroadcast: Slime, Shorebirds, and a Scientific Mystery
Viruses Are Not Always the Villain
Declared Extinct, the Yaghan Rise in the Land of Fire
The Landfill of the Future
Rebroadcast: The Future of Castro’s Crocs
Rebroadcast: A Fish Called Rockweed
Clever Whales and the Violent Fight for Fish on the Line
Catching Crabs in a Suffocating Sea
Will Exporting Farmed Totoaba Fix the Big Mess Pushing the World’s Most Endangered Porpoise to Extinction?
Whales in the Cliff Face
As African Penguins Go Hungry, a Debate Rages in South Africa: Who Gets the Fish?
Bonus Episode: The Social Lives of Octopuses
Kelp Gets on the Carbon-Credit Bandwagon
Rebroadcast: Training the Polar Bear Patrol
Holy Mackerel, Where’d You Go?
Can We Really Be Friends with an Octopus?
Oil Rigs Are a Refuge in a Dying Sea
A Key Tool for Cleaning Up Oil Spills Is More Hazardous Than Helpful
Bonus Episode: Deep-Sea Mining Demystified
Alaska’s Absent Snowy Owls
My Family’s Pacific Island Home Is Grappling with Deep-Sea Mining
Checkpoints, Machine Guns, and Fences: This Pakistani Port Is Not for the People
Rebroadcast: When Mountains Fall into the Sea
What Whale Barnacles Know
Rebroadcast: The Local-Carb Diet
Are We on the Verge of Chatting with Whales?
Stitching Hope
Rebroadcast: Defenders of the Forgotten Fish
Raising Baby Sharks from the Dead
Surrogacy Across Species
Scooping Plastic Out of the Ocean Is a Losing Game
Flying by the Fat of the Sea
Rebroadcast: The Mysterious Disappearance of Keith Davis
A Cancer-Quashing Microbe Emerges from the Deep
How Ancient Rome’s 1% Hijacked the Beach
Why We Can’t Shake Ambergris
Rebroadcast: The Long, Knotty, World-Spanning Story of String
The Ingenious Ancient Technology Concealed in the Shallows
Rebroadcast: Lord of the ’Rhynchs
The Hard Sell of Whale Sanctuaries
In Goa, the Water Runs Black
Survivor: Salmon Edition
Birdopolis Webinar: Coastal Birds at Home in the City
Birdopolis, Part 3 of 3: The City, the Sparrow, and the Tempestuous Sea
Birdopolis Part 2 of 3: Honolulu: A Seabird’s Surprising Five-Star Destination
Birdopolis Part 1 of 3: The Gull Next Door
Freeing Oysters from a Parasite’s Hold
Hawai‘i’s Last Outlaw Hippies (Rebroadcast)
The Trees That Sail to Sea (Rebroadcast)
Introducing the Sound Aquatic
Hitchhiking with Bloodworms
That Time Hitler’s Girlfriend Visited Iceland and the British Invaded
Making Amends with Makatea
Thriving Together: Salmon, Berries, and People
What To Do with Fish When the River Runs Dry
How Microfishing Took the Angling World by (Very Small) Storm
The Quest for a Floating Utopia
The Noose Beneath the Waves (Rebroadcast)
Audubon at Sea
Mental Health and the Modern Fisherman
The Savory Possibilities of Sea Beans
Tuna’s Last Stand
The Dogs that Grew Wool and the People Who Love Them
A Tour of Unloved Fishes
Banking on Bird Shit
Stepping Off Shore and into Sea Country
Where Now Grizzly Bear?
The Pandemic Is Undermining Weather Monitoring
The Radio Station at the Heart of a Fishing Community
Keeping Watch Over Seabirds at the World's Edge
Return of the Mummers
A Fragile Economy Balanced on a Shark's Back
Fish Feel Pain. Now What? (Rebroadcast)
The Ecolabel Fable (Rebroadcast)
When Rubber Hits the Road—and Washes Away
The Rising Tide Underfoot
Trapped Between Pavement and the Pacific
The Oracle of Oyster River (Rebroadcast)
The Lone Wolf That Was Loved to Death
Death of a Modern Wolf (Rebroadcast)
The Race Against Catastrophe
The Island That Humans Can't Conquer
How North Korea Built a Fleet of Ghost Ships
Where Camels Take to the Sea
From Prejudice to Pride (Rebroadcast)
Claiming Ultima Thule
The Earthquake That Brought Enlightenment
Big Fish, Part 6 of 6: How to Stop Worrying and Love Farmed Fish
Big Fish, Part 5 of 6: Hold the Salt: The Promise of Little Fresh Fishes
Big Fish, Part 4 of 6: Taking the Fish Out of Fish Feed
Big Fish, Part 3 of 6: Show Me the Money Fish
Big Fish, Part 2 of 6: A Short History of Aquaculture Innovation
Introducing a Special Six-part Editorial Package: Big Fish: The Aquacultural Revolution
A Tuna's Worth
Dmitri Versus Goliath: Environmentalism in Russia’s Far East
Sharing Food, Building Resilience
The Old Man and the New Sea
Avoiding Extinction (Rebroadcast)
The Oddball Dolphin of Dingle
On Knowing the Winged Whale
Sand? Mine! (Rebroadcast)
The Faux Fish Coming to a Restaurant Near You
Blasting Through the Hunley Mystery (Rebroadcast)
The Rolling, Lurching, Vomit-Inducing Road to a Seasickness Cure
Protected on One Side of the Border, Hunted on the Other
The Fisher Kings (Rebroadcast)
The Sea Versus St. Augustine
Hunger’s Children (Rebroadcast)
The Brine Revolution (Rebroadcast)
The Art of Turning Fish into Leather
The Wonderful, Transcendent Life of an Odd-Nosed Monkey
When Photographers Get Too Close, Wildlife Pays the Price
Footprints of Extraction
The Lunar Sea
In the Land of Lost Gardens (Rebroadcast)
Scotland’s Seaweed Showdown
The Unique Language of Newfoundland (Rebroadcast)
Catch Me If You Can: The Global Pursuit of a Fugitive Ship
Crocodiles Rising
Bandits on the Beach (Rebroadcast)
France’s Deadly Seaweed
An Ecologist Organizes the World
You Never Forget the Smell
Embracing the Weirdness of Waterless Waterways (Rebroadcast)
Treasure Fever
Marine Protected Areas: May or May Not Include Actual Protection
Pool-landia (Rebroadcast)
The Vulture Watcher
The Empty Houses That Foreign Aid Built
Picking Up the Bones
From Berth to Death
No Wool, No Vikings
For Sale: Wild Russian Killer Whales (Rebroadcast)
The Fight Over a Shitty Rock
The Symbolic Seashell
From Vilified to Vindicated: the Story of Jacques Cinq-Mars (Rebroadcast)
The Clam That Sank a Thousand Ships (Rebroadcast)
Gray Laws on White Sharks
A Humpback Whodunit
Introducing: The Ballast Podcast
The Tale of Dirty, Old, Leaky Zalinski
The Uncertain Future of Puffin for Dinner (Rebroadcast)
Leviathans in the Harbor
The Last Trial of the Codfather (Rebroadcast)
The Rat Spill
Ticked Off on Martha’s Vineyard
Swimming with Tuna
Wasted
A Visit with the Glacier Squad
Searching for Keith
The Secret History of Bioluminescence (Rebroadcast)
What I Wish My Father Had Taught Me About Fishing
Supersize My Seabream
The Hot Mess of Hawai‘i’s Renewable Power Push
The Newest Lab Rat Has Eight Arms
The Whale Dying on the Mountain (Rebroadcast)
The Baffling Case of the Belugas that Won’t Bounce Back
Fish Below Your Feet and Other Solutions for a Living Harbor
The Tough Sell of Turtle-Saving Tech
How Animals Code Their Kids for Survival
Finding Our First Fish
Reassessing Seal Rescue
Eradicating the One Percent
Germany’s Winds of Change
Born to Swim
Caamaño: The Sound of (Whale) Music
Reawakening Kaloko
Seaweed Economics 101: Boom and Bust in the North Atlantic
The Basketmaker
Citizen Science Comes of Age
Hey Beacher, Leave Those Fish Alone
The Great Dolphin Dilemma
The Gnawing Question of Saltwater Beavers
Deer Wars: The Forest Awakens
The Curious Case of Bermuda’s Mysterious Turtle
The Risky Fame of a Rare Island Wildcat
A Swedish Island’s Rare Balancing Act
Why Does Halibut Cost So Much?
The Riddle of the Roaming Plastics
An Oasis of Open Water
The Cavernous World under the Woods
Instant Ocean
The Hidden Coastal Culture of the Ancient Maya
The Ghosts of Fishers Past
The Halibut Hook Revival
Herschel, the Very Hungry Sea Lion
In the Kingdom of the Bears
Kelly, the Sassy Dolphin
Letting Go of Paradise
Guilt-Free on the Sea?
The Oracle of Oyster River
Of Roe, Rights, and Reconciliation
What the Ancient Oyster Knows
The Last Cannery Standing
Welcome to the Arctic, Fish
Groomed to Death
Seafood CSI
Where Our Human Ancestors Made an Impression
Fishonomics 101: the Illusion of Abundance
Slime, Shorebirds, and a Scientific Mystery
The Future of Castro’s Crocs
Evicted by Climate Change
The Mysterious Decline of Iceland’s American Invader
A Fish Called Rockweed
What History Gives, the Sea Steals
Row, Row, Row Your Coat
Training the Polar Bear Patrol
When Mountains Fall into the Sea
The Oil Spill Cleanup Illusion
The Local-Carb Diet
Defenders of the Forgotten Fish
When Whales and Humans Talk
The Mysterious Disappearance of Keith Davis
How Ancient Rome’s 1% Hijacked the Beach
Weapons of War Litter the Ocean Floor
The Long, Knotty, World-Spanning Story of String
Lord of the ’Rhynchs
A Sunken Bridge the Size of a Continent
Hawai‘i’s Last Outlaw Hippies
The Trees That Sail to Sea
Eel of Fortune
The Noose Beneath the Waves
Why Iceland Is Turning Purple
Twilight for the Sawfish
Fish Feel Pain. Now What?
Fish, Drugs, and Murder
Quick Sand, Dirty Money
The Hunger Games: Two Killer Whales, Same Sea, Different Diets
Death by Killer Algae
Landlocked Islanders
The Ecolabel Fable
The Scientist Who Reads a Lost History in the Mud
Damming Eden
Death of a Modern Wolf
From Prejudice to Pride
Whales Through a New Lens
Saving the Ocean One Outfit at a Time
Avoiding Extinction
Sand? Mine!
The Oral History of Toothless Whales
Blasting Through the Hunley Mystery
The Great Quake and the Great Drowning
The Power of Compassion
Peeping in on the Mile Deep Club
The Fisher Kings
Hunger’s Children
How Many Countries Does it Take to Save a Fish?
Watts in the Water
The Brine Revolution
The Lunar Sea
In The Land Of Lost Gardens
Unique Language of Newfoundland
The Shellfish Gene
Reef Avengers
Crocodiles Rising
Drawing Meaning from Death, One Seabird at a Time
Bandits On The Beach
Embracing the Weirdness
Pool-landia
Dam Busters
No Wool, No Vikings
For Sale Wild Russian Killer Whales
Little Shop Of Wildlife Horrors
From Vilified to Vindicated
The Bounty of The Bone Pile
Saving the Silverspot
The Unforgettable Pia Arke
The Clam That Sank a Thousand Ships
How To Fund An Expedition
People Of The Sea Ice See Cracks Forming
The Uncertain Future of Puffin for Dinner
The Last Trial Of The Codfather
The Whale Dying On The Mountain
Secret History Of Bioluminescence