{"id":602425,"date":"2026-09-01T08:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T08:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/602425\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T08:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T08:48:11","slug":"what-can-seashells-teach-us-about-the-health-of-our-oceans-short-wave-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/602425\/","title":{"rendered":"What can seashells teach us about the health of our oceans? : Short Wave : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788252491_615_.jpeg\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/7129x4010+0+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F90%2F1a%2F794a97b24191aad38270b9a22478%2F39e45cde-45d0-422f-b00f-e70417975b45.jpg\" class=\"img\" alt=\"A large cream-colored spiral shell sits on wet sand near the shoreline. Waves are blurred in the background, while the sun sets in the orange-colored ocean \" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n                Shells could gives us important clues about the health of our oceans.<\/p>\n<p>                    Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                hide caption\n            <\/p>\n<p>              toggle caption<\/p>\n<p>        Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Seashells: They&#8217;re beautiful remnants to carry home from the beach\u2014and so much more! According to environmental journalist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cynthiabarnett.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cynthia Barnett<\/a>, seashells record history more accurately than the humans who first wrote it down.<\/p>\n<p>In this episode, we talk about the science of seashells, their impact on humankind and the scientist behind a very famous tongue twister.<\/p>\n<p>Check out Cynthia&#8217;s book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cynthiabarnett.net\/shop\/p\/the-sound-of-the-sea-hardcover\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Sound of the Sea<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Interested in more ocean stories? Email us your question at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/09\/01\/nx-s1-5910654\/mailto:shortwave@npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">shortwave@npr.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Support public media with NPR+ and enjoy perks for over 25 podcasts like this one. This show&#8217;s perks include sponsor-free listening. Learn more at <a href=\"http:\/\/plus.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">plus.npr.org<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Listen to Short Wave on <a href=\"https:\/\/n.pr\/3HOQKeK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/n.pr\/3WA9vqh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This episode was produced by Juan Diego Ramirez. It was edited by Rebecca Ramirez. Tyler Jones checked the facts. The audio engineer was Jimmy Keeley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shells could gives us important clues about the health of our oceans. Getty Images hide caption toggle caption&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[85,46,141],"class_list":["post-602425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}