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What are the five areas of our collective existence on earth where the ocean matters most? If we are looking for a context to drive motivation and ...
- Added: Apr 11, 2024
- Length: 04:48
We are aware of the key role played by insurance, more so as we face increasing events of extreme weather destruction. Government agencies are sign...
- Added: Oct 18, 2023
- Length: 05:16
Science fictions are widely held dangerous beliefs that are not supported by science. Jess explores a few of these in anticipation of the continued...
- Added: Oct 03, 2023
- Length: 29:00
This week we continue the multi-part RESCUE series with an outline of the four technological focus areas of the recently announced Ocean Climate Ac...
- Added: Apr 12, 2023
- Length: 10:38
This week on World Ocean Radio, part two of a multi-part series entitled RESCUE, outlining a new plan for the ocean and a new perspective to enable...
- Added: Jan 19, 2023
- Length: 05:27
I grew and sold California buckthorn for several years. Early on I sold it wholesale to other nurseries, but I also sold it at Farmers Markets in C...
- Added: Dec 13, 2022
- Length: 04:18
Leslie Newton Goodding had a busy career. It was when he worked for the U. S. Department of Agriculture that he collected the type specimen for the...
- Added: Dec 07, 2022
- Length: 04:01
It was the American botanist Soreno Watson, that named the onion collected in Tanner’s Canyon of the Huachuca Mountains to honor Sara Plummer Lemmo...
- Added: Dec 07, 2022
- Length: 04:16
This week on World Ocean Radio we're discussing COP27, the annual Conference of the Parties, that took place this year in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. W...
- Added: Nov 23, 2022
- Length: 05:19
I thought you’d like to see the fraction of the Galiuro Mountains (Galuros!)
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 05:00
It’s fun to have favorite plants to look for on excursions into the hills. Looking back at photos and my notes, we have been checking on this parti...
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 04:23
What a fun discovery in the desert east of Douglas, Arizona. There is just something about these large spinescent shrubs in the buckthorn family, R...
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 04:22
The genus Heuchera is found in the saxifrage family, Saxifracaceae, with 80 other genera that includes the genus Saxifraga and its 400 species. Yikes!
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 04:16
My morning ditties are not nearly as amazing as the song of a curved bill thrasher, but they help me begin the day.
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 04:23
There are a dozen species of Melampodium and I wonder which one Linnaeus was looking at when he honored Melampus with the genus name. And I wonder...
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 04:28
It's true that every year I jump and shout about the fall blooming plants in the Aster family (Asteraceae) and I proclaim that there should be a fe...
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 04:19
Fall gets me excited and fall color is a crazy combination of blooming plants and plants with leaves changing color as they prepare to go dormant. ...
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 05:03
The botanical name for jackass clover is Wislizenia refracta and for clammy weed it’s Polanisia dodecandra. I translate those very cool names in th...
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 04:00
This week on World Ocean Radio we're talking about the circulation of water worldwide, and the importance of canals and waterways to bring us toget...
- Added: Oct 07, 2022
- Length: 05:15
This week on World Ocean Radio we're offering two extremely important ocean examples where the opposition of sovereignty and commonality collide. T...
- Added: Sep 29, 2022
- Length: 05:21
This week, part two of a two-part series laying out steps with examples that represent a coherent and provocative way forward toward a plastic-free...
- Added: Sep 15, 2022
- Length: 05:11
A new analysis by The Pew Charitable Trusts, in association with SYSTEMIQ, finds that without immediate and sustained action, the annual flow of pl...
- Added: Sep 08, 2022
- Length: 05:14
This summer we are revisiting some of our favorite World Ocean Radio episodes that highlight optimism for the ocean. This week we are discussing an...
- Added: Aug 31, 2022
- Length: 05:19
This summer we are revisiting some of our favorite World Ocean Radio episodes that highlight optimism for the ocean. In this episode we discuss two...
- Added: Aug 23, 2022
- Length: 05:06
This summer we are revisiting some of our favorite World Ocean Radio episodes that highlight optimism for the ocean. In this episode we highlight T...
- Added: Aug 17, 2022
- Length: 05:04
