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World Ocean Observatory is ever in search of new systems that convert knowledge into action, especially as they relate to ocean education and commu...
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- Added: Jun 27, 2024
- Length: 05:18
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If you remember your junior high history lessons, you know that the Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4, 1776, famously declaring that...
- Added: Jun 27, 2024
- Length: 03:00
This week on World Ocean Radio we are hailing the alewife: a species of herring found in the west Atlantic where they thrive along shore and season...
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- Added: Jun 19, 2024
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June 24th marks the anniversary of the infamous Dobbs Supreme Court decision, trashing women’s right to abortion guaranteed since Roe v. Wade in ...
- Added: Jun 18, 2024
- Length: 03:00
On June 8th each year we come together as a global community to celebrate World Ocean Day, a date set aside to recognize our relationship with the ...
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- Added: Jun 07, 2024
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Back in the day Mom stayed home with kids, housework, and runny noses. Dad went to work, plopped down in the evening with the newspaper or TV and d...
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- Added: Jun 06, 2024
- Length: 03:00
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A call to action:
In this two-episode arch we reintroduce listeners to RESCUE: a 33-part series outlining a plan for specific action and public par...
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- Added: May 29, 2024
- Length: 05:17
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Official history says the first Memorial Day celebration was held in Arlington National Cemetery on May 30, 1868, where Union and Confederate soldi...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 03:00
After a recent visit to Japan, an island nation, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill ponders, what if, as in Japan, we applied values individually, ...
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- Added: May 15, 2024
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Bio-regions on Earth are organized into types, then realms, and are further distinguished and mapped for planning, strategizing, developing, and as...
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- Added: May 08, 2024
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Most people think Mother's Day is just a day for mom to get gifts and thanks. But it has a far more serious and important origin and history.
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- Added: Apr 27, 2024
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This week on World Ocean Radio we're sharing some methods and means to make small and large changes that can have effects on the climate and sustai...
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- Added: Apr 24, 2024
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Taxes are necessary for a civilized society, and most ordinary people pay their fair share. But there's one group that pays nothing at all, while ...
- Added: Apr 10, 2024
- Length: 03:00
Wake up and view the solar eclipse, last one 'til 2044. If you think really has no significance except crazy superstition, think again. Ancient voi...
- Added: Apr 05, 2024
- Length: 02:30
A nocturne is a short musical composition: dreamy, romantic, suggestive of the night, a passage from one place to the next. This week we're asking:...
- Added: Apr 01, 2024
- Length: 05:07
In business, as in life, there is a balance sheet, a statement of assets, profit and loss, income and expense, showing whether our accounts are in ...
- Added: Mar 20, 2024
- Length: 05:07
The old saying "necessity is the mother of invention" may be true, but it leaves out an important component -- the real "mothers" and "aunts" and "...
- Added: Mar 12, 2024
- Length: 03:00
Seafood is a world staple, under siege by increased consumption and over-fishing. Aquaculture is the necessary alternative, yet is a polarizing iss...
- Added: Mar 06, 2024
- Length: 05:18
The sun is the greatest energy source available for our needs, thought we view it more today as an enemy than a resource and friend. If we are to a...
- Added: Mar 04, 2024
- Length: 05:07
"We are not blind to the overall problem, and if we were in doubt, recent climate-explained events, near and far, should open our eyes more widely....
- Added: Mar 04, 2024
- Length: 05:13
Females are without question the stars of Hollywood costume design, raking in Oscars in numbers that far outstrip the men. They get lots of well de...
- Added: Feb 28, 2024
- Length: 02:30
In this episode and the next, World Ocean Radio reports on the status quo, business-as-usual, tunnel vision conclusions at COP28 in Dubai, hosted b...
- Added: Feb 14, 2024
- Length: 04:51
A November visit to Gloucester Massachusetts for an Ocean Literary Conference (NEOSEC 2023) afforded W2O staff an opportunity to take a field trip ...
- Added: Feb 13, 2024
- Length: 05:20
In 2009 Lilly Ledbetter learned she had been paid 40% less than men in the same Goodyear Tire & Rubber job. It was a long slog, but she won, and wo...
- Added: Jan 26, 2024
- Length: 03:00
Devastating weather and water events abound worldwide. Rain, flooding, strong winds, extreme high tides, coastal erosion and inundation have caused...
- Added: Jan 24, 2024
- Length: 05:25