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.

1. Climate change strengthens the case for a high seas fishing ban2026-06-19
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2. Shifting Trends in Aquaculture's Biological Potential to Address Food, Climate and Biodiversity Challenges2026-03-25
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3. The Gendered Impacts of Climate Change on Fisherfolk: Evidence from Nigeria and Cameroon2026-01-26
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4. Marine heatwaves deeply alter marine food web structure and function2025-11-07
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5. Decent work in fishing in a changing climate2025-11-01
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6. Transforming towards what? A review of futures-thinking applied in the quest for navigating sustainability transformations2025-04-29
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7. System-specific aquaculture annual growth rates can mitigate the trilemma of production, pollution and carbon dioxide emissions in China2025-02-11
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8. Impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the aquaculture industry in Sunyani Municipality, Ghana2024-12-31
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9. Making the case for gender-inclusive fisheries governance, policies and climate adaptation2024-12-05
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10. Climate change undermines seafood micronutrient supply from wild-capture fisheries in Southeast Asia and Pacific Island countries2024-12-01
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11. The spatiotemporal changes in fish and invertebrate community structure and habitat viability in the Yangtze Estuary2024-12-01
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12. Climate change alters social‐ecological trade‐offs in achieving ocean futures' targets2024-07-31
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13. Utilizing basic income to create a sustainable, poverty-free tomorrow2024-06-01
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14. A traits-based approach to assess aquaculture’s contributions to food, climate change, and biodiversity goals2024-05-31
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15. Historical climate drivers and species’ ecological niche in the Beaufort Sea food web2024-05-14
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16. Unraveling the drivers of the adoption of improved fish smoking technology among small-scale fisheries: A case study of the Ahotor oven in Ghana2024-05-01
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17. Effects of Anthropogenic Activities on Sardinella maderensis (Lowe, 1838) Fisheries in Coastal Communities of Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria2024-03-29
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18. Good fisheries management is good carbon management2024-03-21
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19. Projecting contributions of marine protected areas to rebuild fish stocks under climate change2024-03-02
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20. WTO must complete an ambitious fisheries subsidies agreement2024-02-02
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21. Comparative analysis of climate-induced changes in distribution of representative fish species in the Yellow Sea2024-02-01
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22. The new UN high seas marine biodiversity Agreement may also facilitate climate action: a cautiously optimistic view2024-01-25
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23. Potential impacts of reduced seafood consumption on myocardial infarction among coastal First Nations in British Columbia, Canada2024-01-01
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24. Spatiotemporal variation of China’s mariculture potential under climate change2023-11-28
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25. A Closer Look at Socio-Economic and management perspectives of shark fishery in Ghana2023-11-26
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26. Climate change exacerbates nutrient disparities from seafood2023-10-30
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27. Towards a better future for biodiversity and people: Modelling Nature Futures2023-09-01
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28. The living infinite: Envisioning futures for transformed human-nature relationships on the high seas2023-07-01
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29. Global estimates of suitable areas for marine algae farming2023-06-01
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