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Nazare: Where the Ocean Breathes Fire — A Story of Giants
Read more: Nazare: Where the Ocean Breathes Fire — A Story of GiantsImagine standing atop a rugged cliff at the edge of Portugal’s Atlantic coast, the old lighthouse and fortress at your back, the sun glinting on the red tile roofs of a sleepy seaside town below. On your left, gentle waves lap at the golden crescent of Praia da Nazaré. But turn your gaze to the…
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From Coral Reef to Continental Shelf Seabed Research
Read more: From Coral Reef to Continental Shelf Seabed ResearchIn this episode, I am joined by Tara Williams, a third-year PhD researcher based at the University of Exeter’s Penryn Campus and part of the Convex Seascape Survey, a five-year international project investigating how much carbon is stored on the continental shelf seabed, how vulnerable it is to disturbance, and what that means for climate-informed…
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A Long Way North – a Whale Tale
Read more: A Long Way North – a Whale TaleSome stories don’t begin with a discovery. They begin with recognition. When a photograph surfaced from the Caribbean showing a humpback whale with a calf, marine biologist Charla J. Basran knew immediately what she was seeing. Not just a mother and her newborn, but an individual whale she had known for years in Icelandic waters.…
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Wings Over Seewinkel: A Ranger’s Sight of the Park’s Feathered Residents
Read more: Wings Over Seewinkel: A Ranger’s Sight of the Park’s Feathered ResidentsFog covers the wide, flat landscape that stretches eastward from Lake Neusiedl, Austria’s largest water body, extending all the way to Hungary. The region is called Seewinkel, which translates as “the angle of the lake.” Lake Neusiedl was once much larger and stretched in an L-shape on the Austrian and Hungarian sides. Where the angle…
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The Secret Society of Eels- with marine scientist Molly Fowkes
Read more: The Secret Society of Eels- with marine scientist Molly FowkesIn this episode, I’m joined by Molly Fowkes, a PhD researcher at the Lancaster Environment Centre, whose work dives into the hidden social lives of one of the UK’s most endangered and enigmatic species — the European eel. Molly studies a unique eel population living inside a reservoir: a human-made freshwater system where eels are…
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The Artivist – Janina Rossiter
Read more: The Artivist – Janina RossiterSometimes, when I think about our oceans, the forecasts feel unbearably heavy. It’s easy to slip into the feeling that we’re on a Don Quijote-like quest — charging endlessly at windmills, always falling short of the finish line. But recently, I’ve been reminded that this isn’t the whole story. There is another side. A brighter…
