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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
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Global temperatures would be soaring even higher were it not for a powerful heat-trapping ally: oceans. From regulating the temperature of the plan...

  • Added: May 09, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
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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
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With the Green New Deal in the national spotlight, a vigorous debate is happening: how ambitiously and broadly must the U.S. act on climate? Are is...

Bought by WJCT, WCQS, NPR Now, MPR News Stations, KHSQ and more


  • Added: Apr 10, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 9
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With the Green New Deal in the national spotlight, a vigorous debate is happening: how ambitiously and broadly must the U.S. act on climate? Are is...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
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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The last five years have been the hottest on record globally. But this past winter, plunging temperatures, snowstorms and torrential rains througho...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2019
  • Length: 58:56
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: Tirana Vertical Forest designed by Stefano Boeri
Some think that “green growth” would be unlikely to stop global warming, and would only worsen numerous other global environmental crises. While a ...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2019
  • Length: 59:09
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We begin this segment of Dig Deep with our liberal commentator Aaron Brown and conservative Chuck Marohn on the topic of socialism.

  • Added: Mar 08, 2019
  • Length: 16:42
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The last five years have been the hottest on record globally. But this past winter, plunging temperatures, snowstorms and torrential rains througho...

Bought by WJCT, WCQS, KUHF, KFCF FM, NPR Now and more


  • Added: Mar 05, 2019
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 11
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: Katharine Hayhoe, recipient of the 2018 Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Science Communication
Many of us find it daunting to talk with our neighbors, colleagues and family members about climate change. But climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe ...

Bought by WJCT, WCQS, KBBI Alaska, KVMR, MPR News Stations and more


  • Added: Feb 07, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 8
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How do you teach ethics to engineering students? Guests Dr. Beccy Hambright and Richard Burgess talk about their experience tackling that question...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Jan 21, 2019
  • Length: 48:02
  • Purchases: 1
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How do we protect ourselves and our properties from storm surge and sea level rise? Last week we discussed the hard edge strategy of dikes, dams, g...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2019
  • Length: 05:28
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We all know about the environmental and physical effects of climate change. But what about its impact on our mental health? Therapists report that ...

Bought by WJCT, KVNF, KZYX, NPR Now, WLPR and more


  • Added: Dec 12, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 6
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Interviews with college students and medical professionals on the rise of e-cigs

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 10, 2018
  • Length: 03:04
  • Purchases: 1
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The Catalog of Life is an online database of the world's known species of animals, plants, fungi and micro-organisms. It holds the essential inform...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Nov 27, 2018
  • Length: 05:07
  • Purchases: 1
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Kirk is part of the 10th District of Texas, which cuts into Austin. Kirk is voting for his representatives to heed scientists' warnings and take cl...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2018
  • Length: 03:42

  • Added: Oct 08, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: L-R: Bill Nye, Jane Goodall, Al Gore
Former Vice-President Al Gore, famed primatologist Jane Goodall, and TV scientist-turned-activist Bill Nye are three climate veterans who have lost...

Bought by KUSU and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 04, 2018
  • Length: 40:55
  • Purchases: 2
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"The ocean is largely unexplored." So states the seventh and final Ocean Literacy principle, a series of fundamental concepts to help us better und...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2018
  • Length: 05:10
Caption: Coastal Port, Barcelona, Spain , Credit: Photo by Tobias A. Müller on Unsplash
"The ocean and humans are inextricably interconnected." So states the sixth Ocean Literacy principle, a series of fundamental concepts to help us b...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2018
  • Length: 05:10