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May42023

Clown fish in anemone

Do you know what a fish is?

Climbing the Tree of Life, Episodes, Making WavesBy Kate HildenbrandMay 4, 2023

What’s a fish? Sounds like a simple question, right? Unless we are talking about your dinner, figuring out what a fish actually is, might be a lot harder than you think. After all, a seahorse is a fish but a whale isn’t. So, what the duck is a fish? We’ve been climbing this tree of…

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Apr172023

How we messed up ocean protection

Episodes, Making Waves, Marine Protected AreasBy Kate HildenbrandApril 17, 2023

Unless you live near the coast, you probably think about the ocean more as a destination for a nice beach vacation as anything that directly affects you. To put it bluntly: even if you don’t eat fish, hate swimming, and the idea of the beach disgusts you: the ocean affects you, too. Every single person…

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Mar142023

Sea urchins: Spiky balls of ouch

Climbing the Tree of Life, Episodes, Making WavesBy Kate HildenbrandMarch 14, 2023

Introduction Sea urchins are essentially folded-up sea stars. Very poky folded-up sea stars with spikes poky enough that even I might consider putting some shoes on my feet. Maybe. Today, we’re finishing our exploration of the hedgehog-skinned echinoderms. Climbing up the Tree of Life one group at a time. Most sea urchins look exactly like…

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Feb142023

The deep-sea benthos

Episodes, Making Waves, Zones of the OceanBy Kate HildenbrandFebruary 14, 2023

Unreachable to most humans, the deepest depths of the ocean hold endless wonders from the totally adorable to really creepy, from the hot to the cold, from the dark to the—no, all dark. Unless you meet one of those creatures that can make their own light. Chapter 1: The deep-sea benthos The deep-sea benthos is…

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Feb32023

This is fine: Or the fire alarm for the climate catastrophe

Episodes, Making WavesBy Kate HildenbrandFebruary 3, 2023

You know that cartoon with the dog drinking coffee while his house in on fire. “This is fine,” says the title. Greta Thunberg used the same idea when she said that our house is on fire. While this is true almost literally in some parts of the worlds with fires spreading destruction all over the…

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Jan182023

Sea cucumbers are more than fat blobs

Climbing the Tree of Life, Episodes, Making WavesBy Kate HildenbrandJanuary 18, 2023

There is a photo from one of our dive trips that confused the shit out of me. A fuzzy structure that looked somewhat coral-like but wasn’t. When my husband said it was a cucumber, I was sure he was joking. Months later, I found a similar photo online and realized he’d not only meant it…

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Nov302022

Octopus

Zones of the Ocean

Episodes, Making Waves, Zones of the OceanBy Kate HildenbrandNovember 30, 2022

To most people, the ocean is a more or less flat-surface, just like the ground beneath our feet. But there is so much more under the waves. From the surface to the deepest depths, from the shore to the open ocean, we’ll take it apart—and even get into some special zones. What to expect from…

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Nov102022

Sea star on colorful rock reef

Sea stars and brittle stars

Climbing the Tree of Life, Episodes, Making WavesBy Kate HildenbrandNovember 10, 2022

When I learned how to dive, a whole new world opened up—but it soon felt like this world was dying! Sargassum seaweed was taking over where kelp forests had been, and bristle stars took over entire reefs. It was at the height of the mysterious sea star wasting syndrome, and many thought one of the…

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Oct252022

How the Ocean Stores Carbon Dioxide

Episodes, Making WavesBy Kate HildenbrandOctober 25, 2022

The ocean is our greatest hero in the fight against climate change. To find out why, we’ll follow a carbon dixoide molecule from your breath to the bottom of the ocean.

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