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Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity's annual demands on Nature exceed the capacity for Earth's ecosystems to regenerate those resource...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2019
  • Length: 05:14
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Most of us spend close to half of our waking adult lives at work, but I would venture to guess that less than five percent of narrative films take ...

  • Added: Jul 31, 2019
  • Length: 03:56
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A young black man yearns to reclaim the old San Francisco house that he grew up in, but which his father lost, in this film about home, friendship,...

  • Added: Jul 31, 2019
  • Length: 03:39
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On this show I want to cover two films about people trying to do something no one else has done; both of them played in theaters during the past ye...

  • Added: Jul 31, 2019
  • Length: 04:26
Caption: The Law of Mother Earth: protecting the well-being of its citizens by protecting the natural world
"Mother Earth has the following rights: To life, to the diversity of life, to water, to clean air, to equilibrium, to restoration, and to pollution...

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  • Added: Jul 23, 2019
  • Length: 04:40
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Wolf Schram for Unsplash
How often do we think about what lies below the surface of the land, below the sea floor? This week on World Ocean Radio we're thinking about water...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2019
  • Length: 05:33
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In this episode of World Ocean Radio we look back at the most egregious actions and decisions taken by individuals, corporations and governments th...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2019
  • Length: 05:25
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Elisabeth Moss dominates the screen as a crash-and-burn rock star in Alex Ross Perry’s latest provocative drama.

  • Added: May 16, 2019
  • Length: 03:54
Caption: Desalination plant in Hamburg, Germany, Credit: World Atlas | worldatlas.com/articles/can-we-make-drinking-water-out-of-ocean-water.html
This week on World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill gets us thinking about seawater: as a resource for fresh drinking water, as a means for robust rene...

  • Added: May 14, 2019
  • Length: 05:12
Caption: Rivedoux-Plage, Charente-Maritime, southwestern France , Credit: Sweet Ice Cream Photography
Bridges are physical structures born from the ingenuity and hard work of humankind, engineered to connect things from one side to another. Bridges ...

  • Added: May 07, 2019
  • Length: 04:38
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The Green New Deal has received much attention in the United States recently as one possible response to the challenging circumstances we face worl...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2019
  • Length: 05:16
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Solar energy has emerged worldwide as a serious and viable alternative to fossil fuels, and can now be found in many places around the world. In th...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2019
  • Length: 04:52
Caption: "Charlotte’s Hope” was tagged and observed by scientists from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, and filmed by BBC 1 for Blue Planet Live, in Charlotte Bay on the Antarctic Peninsula on March 11, 2019. Charlotte's Hope was then adopted and named by Peter
There has never been a better time to be a citizen scientist--those individuals interested in the collection of data toward solutions, the expansio...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2019
  • Length: 04:49
Caption: Phytoplankton (and algae) form the lowest trophic level, the base of the aquatic food web, Credit: NOAA | www.noaa.gov
Food webs describe who eats whom in an ecological community. In the aquatic food web, humans feed down the food chain, consuming lesser and lesser ...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2019
  • Length: 05:27
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Invention and management of energy systems have led to increased efficiency and less reliance on unsustainable supplies of fossil fuels. In this ep...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2019
  • Length: 05:02
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World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill recently returned home from a trip to Antarctica aboard MS Island Sky with scientists from Woods Hole and a film...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2019
  • Length: 04:52
Caption: 500 Episodes, Credit: World Ocean Radio
This week marks the 500th episode of World Ocean Radio! For more than 10 years, World Ocean Radio has been engaging in dialogue about ocean issues,...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2019
  • Length: 05:17
Caption: Yale Climate Connections 2018 Report, Credit: Yale Climate Connections
A recent report from the Yale Program on Climate Change, measuring public awareness and political views on issues related to climate, shows that op...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2019
  • Length: 05:19
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The word 'indigenous' is used a lot these days, especially in terms of territorial rights to land and of invasive species of flora and fauna. In th...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2019
  • Length: 04:30
Caption: Ernest Shakelton British Antarctic Expedition, 1907–09, Credit: Public Domain Review
Antarctica, terra nullius--nobody's land, has long been a place apart, once explored only by intrepid and resourceful individuals willing to risk f...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2019
  • Length: 05:16
Caption: Mazu is a Chinese sea goddess, a tutelary deity of seafarers including fishermen and sailors. Worship of Mazu has spread throughout coastal Chinese regions and throughout Southeast Asia, Credit: Wikimedia Commons
We wrap up our seven-part thematic overview of the ocean edge this week by discussing the cultural edge: the place alongshore where we interact wit...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2019
  • Length: 05:03
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a Supreme Court Justice and an advocate for civil rights, especially the rights of women. She was the second woman ever appo...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2019
  • Length: 04:39
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Sweet Country is a tough, complex Australian film that provides a glimpse into the painful history of that nations’s brutal treatment of its origin...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2019
  • Length: 04:05
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In the film Leave No Trace, a father and his teenage daughter are living in the woods—we see them foraging for food, mending tarps and other equipm...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2019
  • Length: 04:12
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Barry Jenkins adapts a James Baldwin novel about a black couple who won’t let anything, including an unjust arrest, keep them apart.

  • Added: Feb 14, 2019
  • Length: 04:55