World Ocean Radio

Series produced by World Ocean Observatory

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5-minute audio essays on global ocean topics by Peter Neill, Director of the World Ocean Observatory

World Ocean Radio is a weekly 5-minute audio feature for web listeners, podcasts, and worldwide distribution through community radio stations and partners. WOR provides weekly 5-minute commentary from longtime host Peter Neill, offering a unique perspective on important and relevant ocean issues. Thanks to private and foundation funds, we are able to offer World Ocean Radio for syndicated use at no cost.

Broadcast affiliates: We automatically send emails every Monday with mp3 file, episode summary, and links to image file and broadcast page. Episodes are also available for direct download from The Pacifica Network and The Public Radio Exchange.

We hope you'll find World Ocean Radio programming engaging and relevant for your listening audience. It is our belief that the sea connects all things. No matter where your listeners live, these broadcasts offer meaningful and relevant information for us all about the state of our world ocean.

Please let us know what you think: CONTACT US at director@thew2o.net so that we may begin sharing World Ocean Radio weekly broadcasts with you and your listening audience.

The WORLD OCEAN OBSERVATORY is a major utility for ocean communication as a means to advance public awareness and political will, and is dedicated to providing information and education about the health of the ocean. We believe that informed citizens worldwide can unite to sustain the ocean through mitigation and change of human behavior on land and sea. Our focus is the full spectrum of ocean issues: climate, fresh water, food, energy, trade, transportation, public health, finance, governance, security, recreation, and culture. It is our belief that the sea connects all things. Hide full description

World Ocean Radio is a weekly 5-minute audio feature for web listeners, podcasts, and worldwide distribution through community radio stations and partners. WOR provides weekly 5-minute commentary from longtime host Peter Neill, offering a unique perspective on important and relevant ocean issues. Thanks to private and foundation funds, we are able to offer World Ocean Radio for syndicated use at no cost. Broadcast affiliates: We automatically send emails every Monday with mp3 file, episode summary, and links to image file and broadcast page. Episodes are also available for direct download from The Pacifica Network and The Public Radio Exchange. We hope you'll find World Ocean Radio programming engaging and relevant for your listening audience. It is our belief that the sea connects all... Show full description


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Recently, the Global Environmental Facility and the United Nations Development Program combined their talents and experience to address ocean solut...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2013
  • Length: 05:21
Caption: Catalyzing Ocean Finance Vol. II, Credit: GEF/UNDP
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill continues a discussion of the Global Environment Facility/ United Nations Development Progra...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2013
  • Length: 05:33
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On a recent visit to Kauai host Peter Neill had some chance encounters that prompted this reflection of what it means to be connected to real, mean...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2013
  • Length: 05:42
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Our traditional approach to protection from sea and surge has been the hard edge, with the mission to shield us from the encroachment of water. In ...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2013
  • Length: 05:23
Caption: Red Mangroves, Benner Bay Mangrove Lagoon Marine Sanctuary, St. Thomas, USVI, Credit: Katie Fuller 2009 | Marine Photobank
In this episode of World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill will give examples of some of the slowly emerging examples of soft edge engineering and will ...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2013
  • Length: 05:41
Caption: Sea Orbiter, Credit: http://seaorbiter.com/home/
Advances in technology bring us new, visionary underwater devices to record and transmit observational data. In this episode of World Ocean Radio, ...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2013
  • Length: 05:20
Caption: Global Ocean Commission
There are many organizations, conferences and commissions dedicated to ocean policy, research and education. Yet public perceptions of ocean issues...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 05:11
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The crisis of water is an indisputable one, as evidenced by a public increasingly aware of the urgency of ocean and fresh water issues. In this epi...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2013
  • Length: 05:26
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We continue to look for solutions to our most pressing future challenges: fresh water, food, energy, health, and security. In this episode of World...

  • Added: May 02, 2013
  • Length: 05:34
Caption: Photo courtesty of ISSF, Credit: Andy Maluche
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will discuss efforts being made my Interpol and other organizations to combat unreported fis...

  • Added: May 07, 2013
  • Length: 05:14
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Wind is of particular relevance to the ocean, as evidenced by the number of near and offshore wind turbine proposals currently projected and in mot...

  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 05:37
Caption: Shark fins drying in the sun cover the roof of a factory building in Hong Kong, Credit: AFP
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will ask, "Who is the top predator here?" and, "If certain endangered species do in fact con...

  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 04:57
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There is no single fix to deal with the many challenges facing the world ocean. The ocean community has identified various strategies such as mitig...

  • Added: May 28, 2013
  • Length: 05:13
Caption: Man throwing cast net , Credit: Mangrove Action Project | MarinePhotobank.org
In the last edition of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill suggested reciprocity as a value on which to build our response to the environmental deg...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2013
  • Length: 05:13
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On June 8th we celebrate World Ocean Day to recognize our relationship with the ocean through global connection. In this episode of World Ocean Rad...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2013
  • Length: 05:18
Caption: Operation Surf, Credit: www.operationsurf.com/
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will discuss Blue Mind 3 and the conference topic of empathy. He will describe the work of o...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2013
  • Length: 05:29
Caption: India to Africa: Living in Hand-Me-Downs, Credit: Valerie Tarico | Awaypoint
Reduce, reuse, recycle. The words "reduce" and "recycle" are common in our modern society, but what does it mean to reuse? In this episode of World...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2013
  • Length: 05:12
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Atlantic Memory is a concept which includes every aspect of maritime culture in order to inspire greater public understanding of maritime endeavors...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2013
  • Length: 05:10
Caption: A marine counterpart to actinomycetes: a new genus, Salinosporamide A, a compound isolated from one of the strains that proved most potent against cancer cells. , Credit: Scripps Institution of Oceanography
The ocean is a valuable resource for new medicines, treatment for present and future diseases, and is a potential major contributor for the future ...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2013
  • Length: 05:32
Caption: Floating Classroomm, Credit: Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will discuss the stark juxtaposition of two ocean stories, extreme in their differences, lin...

  • Added: Jul 15, 2013
  • Length: 05:20