Audio

Interviews & broadcast audio

2025

• Oct 7 – Sumaila, UR. Keep, lose, add: a checklist for plotting your next career move in science. Nature Portfolio.

• Mar 20 – Part 5: Migration by Land and by Sea. Foreign Policy Podcast (The Catch).

2024

• Aug 28 – Sumaila, UR. Bottom trawling and the future of global fish supplies. BBC Audio.

• Jul 20 – Cheung, W. Ocean heat waves, and more…. CBC Radio (Quirks & Quarks).

• Jul 5 – Sumaila, UR. Greenpeace dénonce l’exploitation minière des fonds marins (interview clip). Radio-Canada (Panorama).

• Jul 5 – Sumaila, UR. Greenpeace s’oppose au projet d’une entreprise canadienne d’exploiter des fonds marins. Radio-Canada.ca (web segment, French).

• Jun 12 – UBC study says basic income could solve global poverty and fight climate change. CBC Listen (All Points West with Jason D’Souza).

• Jun 10 – UBC study finds basic income could solve global poverty and stop environmental destruction. Is it time for Canada to have a basic income policy?. The Morning Buzz on Spice Radio / Apple Podcasts.

2023

• Mar 9 – Morning Shot: How much will the UN High Seas Treaty help marine creatures?. MoneyFM Singapore.

• Feb 10 – Conférence à Vancouver: TotalEnergies et les défenseurs de l’environnement d’Afrique du Sud. RFI (Changer d’air).

2022

• Aug 8 – Sumaila, UR. Have you ever wondered just how much the ocean is really worth? - CBC (The Early Edition with Stephen Quinn). Trimmed audio.

• Aug 8 – Sumaila, UR. BC’s GDP, Job Market, and Economy (segment starts at 52m50s) - CBC (Daybreak South). Trimmed audio.

• Jun 20 – Solving Food Insecurity Issues. CKNW (The Simi Sara Show) via Omny.fm.

• Jun 20 – Government of Canada delivers on commitment to ban harmful single-use plastics. CKNW (The Jill Bennett Show) via Omny.fm.

More broadcast coverage (including video) is listed on the Media Coverage page.

Solving-FCB Podcast

The Solving-FCB Podcast, hosted by Duncan Murray, explores why it is crucial to address the issues arising at the meeting point of food, climate, and biodiversity. The series features conversations with scientists from around the world about their ongoing research within the Solving-FCB project, and the progress of different case studies within the partnership.

Solving-FCB Podcast: Episode 2

March 24, 2025

Costa Rica’s Gulf of Nicoya: Fisheries, Ecology, and Community, with Fresia Villalobos-Rojas and Dr. Christian Birkel

Episode 2 explores the unfolding ecological and socioeconomic crisis in Costa Rica’s Gulf of Nicoya, where climate change, overfishing, and agricultural runoff are driving a dangerous decline in fish populations and threatening local livelihoods.

Solving-FCB Podcast: Episode 1

March 24, 2025

Tackling Sustainability at the Food, Climate, and Biodiversity Nexus, with Dr. William Cheung

The first episode features an interview with the project’s co-director on the importance of the partnership and its efforts to address complex FCB interactions, drawing on his personal experiences with changing marine environments.

Deep Dive

Deep Dive is an experimental AI-generated podcast series that brings core publications to a wider audience in an engaging, accessible format. Each 10–15 minute episode features a dynamic two-host discussion breaking down key concepts from a selected paper. Episodes are reviewed for alignment with each paper’s findings; minor inaccuracies in language or scientific terminology may occasionally occur due to generative AI.

Deep Dive: Aquaculture

A traits-based approach to assess aquaculture’s contributions to food, climate change, and biodiversity goals.

Deep Dive: Climate Change & Impacting the Beaufort Sea Shelf

Historical climate drivers and species’ ecological niche in the Beaufort Sea food web.

Deep Dive: UN High Seas Treaty & Climate Action

The new UN high seas marine biodiversity Agreement may also facilitate climate action: a cautiously optimistic view.

Deep Dive: Climate Change & Heart Health in Indigenous Communities

Potential impacts of reduced seafood consumption on myocardial infarction among coastal First Nations in British Columbia, Canada.

Deep Dive: Ocean Forecasting: FishMIP 2.0

Detecting, attributing, and projecting global marine ecosystem and fisheries change: FishMIP 2.0.

Deep Dive: How Climate Change is Impacting Fish

Comparative analysis of climate-induced changes in distribution of representative fish species in the Yellow Sea.

Deep Dive: Seaweed Farming

Global estimates of suitable areas for marine algae farming.

Deep Dive: The Future of Seafood

The WTO must complete an ambitious fisheries subsidies agreement.