Featured in Hakai!

It’s a real pleasure to be featured in Hakai magazine again (my previous contribution about life in the sand), a quality popular science magazine about coastal science and societies. In an age of click-bait and poorly researched list-y articles (“12 best spots to feed fish in the Philippines”), Hakai features cutting-edge science for the interested layperson, very solidly fact-checked (in fact in learned something from the fact checker!), visually well presented. Really happy to be a part of that!

Raising Giants
The Philippines has spent three decades restoring legendary clams—some that can grow to 500 kilograms, the biggest in the world!
Photos and text by Klaus M. Stiefel
One of my fondest childhood memories is of day trips with my Austrian grandmother. We’d cross the nearby Italian border and order spaghetti alle vongole—spaghetti with clams. More…