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In the United States, planning and reparation for coastal flooding and damage has been administered under a National Flood Insurance Program that s...
- Added: Sep 03, 2019
- Length: 04:43
In this episode of World Ocean Radio we call upon the Canadian government to amend and expand their June 2019 legislative action--the Wild Animal a...
- Added: Aug 27, 2019
- Length: 05:12
This week on World Ocean Radio we introduce listeners to Project Drawdown, a collective of scholars and innovators assembled to address the challen...
- Added: Aug 20, 2019
- Length: 05:32
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
A trophic cascade is an ecological phenomenon triggered by the addition or removal of top predators, involving changes in populations of both preda...
- Added: Aug 13, 2019
- Length: 04:33
"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...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Jul 23, 2019
- Length: 04:40
- Purchases: 1
With the Hearts in the Ice expedition set to begin one month from now, World Ocean Radio is revisiting a special episode dedicated to the upcoming ...
- Added: Jul 16, 2019
- Length: 04:28
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
This week on World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill highlights the dark side of what happens at sea in the context of a forthcoming book by Pulitzer Pr...
- Added: Jul 02, 2019
- Length: 05:34
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
Visiting coastal graveyards in Ireland some years ago, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill observed the many stones of sailors lost at sea and began...
- Added: Jun 18, 2019
- Length: 05:28
This week on World Ocean Radio we're talking about solutions to the climate challenge by highlighting some modern examples of and possibilities for...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio and KVNF
- Added: Jun 11, 2019
- Length: 05:38
- Purchases: 2
This week we are talking about ocean calm and the ways that we are affected in mind, body and spirit by a peaceful ocean. In this episode we tell t...
- Added: Jun 04, 2019
- Length: 04:51
The World Ocean Observatory is partnering with Main Street Bucksport this year for the 4th annual International Maritime Film Festival, a celebrati...
- Added: May 21, 2019
- Length: 05:04
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
