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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Caption: Super trawler Abel Tasman, formerly the F/V Margiris, a recently renamed and reflagged 430 foot, 9,500 gross ton suction harvest and freezer ship owned by Seafish Tasmania in partnership with Seafish Tasmania Pelagic, a wholly owned subsidiary of a Dutch
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will discuss the surprisingly small number of corporate conglomerates that control the fishi...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2012
  • Length: 06:31
Caption: A melting iceberg in Antarctica. , Credit: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists
Is anyone out there thinking ahead about climate? In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will answer by outlining two particular or...

  • Added: Oct 10, 2012
  • Length: 06:03
Caption: Sahara Forest Project's greenhouse-power plant hybrid proposal , Credit: Sahara Forest Project, 2009
In "Eaarth, Making a Life on a Tough New Planet", author Bill McKibben analyzes the damage we've done to our terrestrial and marine environment, ou...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2012
  • Length: 06:22
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In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will provide multiple references to opinions and data relative to water rights, disputes, fi...

  • Added: May 02, 2013
  • Length: 06:49
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On recent assignment for WoodenBoat Magazine, host Peter Neill visited Istanbul, Turkey to explore the maritime heritage of this ancient city and t...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2012
  • Length: 06:22
Caption: Nemo, Nautilus and Squid. , Credit: Illustration by John Joyce © 2006
The sea has been a source of storytelling and real-time adventure tales since the beginning of narrative and most every culture has its archetypal ...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2012
  • Length: 06:18
Caption: Seaside Heights, New Jersey, Credit: AP/Mike Groll
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will suggest that Sandy may have generated a growing force among citizens and leaders that m...

  • Added: Nov 19, 2012
  • Length: 05:47
Caption: Image: Trains stand in a flooded Metro-North's Harmon Yard, Oct. 31, 2012, on the Hudson Line, in Croton-on-Hudson, New York in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy, Credit: AP Photo | Metropolitan Transportation Authority
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will discuss the New York Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance and their exemplary five-point st...

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  • Added: Nov 28, 2012
  • Length: 06:56
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In this episode, host Peter Neill will discuss the ocean as the central element in our lives. He will explain why the ocean is essential to human s...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2012
  • Length: 04:41
Caption: Breezy Point, NY. , Credit: Frank Franklin II, AP
As the power is restored, transportation comes back online, and life and order return to a semblance of normal, another storm fades from memory. Ye...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2012
  • Length: 05:49
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Each year during the holidays, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reads "At The Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop. This poem was chosen above all oth...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2012
  • Length: 05:10
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In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will discuss the Ocean Classroom Foundation and will explain the organization's core belief:...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2012
  • Length: 05:37
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In this episode of World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill will outline five of the major ocean events for the year 2012.

  • Added: Jan 03, 2013
  • Length: 06:26
Caption: Shell Alaska's earlier drilling program in the Chukchi Sea , Credit: Royal Dutch Shell
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will argue that it is time for the Obama administration to declare the waters of the Arctic ...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2013
  • Length: 06:37
Caption: Manlay Bay Ocean Pool, Sydney, Australia, Credit: BRJ Inc Flickr
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will discuss not only of the prominent conservation-based NGOs, governmental organizations a...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2013
  • Length: 06:34
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The Ocean Health Index defines a healthy ocean as one that sustainably delivers a range of benefits to people both now and in the future. World Oce...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2013
  • Length: 06:14
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Civilization was built by the sea. The 20th century waterfront was an accumulation of functions that were best placed on or near the coast. As popu...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2013
  • Length: 05:45
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The maritime industry is a major index of the health of the global economy and is a significant economic contributor to employment the world over. ...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2013
  • Length: 06:40
Caption: The Göta Canal, Credit: Insightguides.com
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will take us on a tour of the canals of the world.

  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 06:11
Caption: Joseph Conrad (back, center) at sea posing with apprentices aboard Torrens. , Credit: Provided courtesy of the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library of Yale University
In this episode of World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill will suggest that the greatest author of such sea-based literature was Joseph Conrad and will...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 05:37