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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 discuss the disruption and potential sabotage of the Nord Stream Line, the underwater natural gas pipelines in th...
- Added: Oct 12, 2022
- Length: 04:57
The drums of Durga Puja, the biggest festival of the Kolkata calendar finally stopped beating last week.
But some are asking about such a big celeb...
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- Added: Oct 11, 2022
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
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
Sometimes we go astray. But that’s all right, that’s our opposing nature, and we know how to get back on the right road. Not the “straight and narr...
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- Added: Sep 30, 2022
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
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
Cheetahs were declared extinct in India in 1952. Now they are being brought back from Africa.
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- Added: Sep 27, 2022
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
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
This summer we are revisiting some of our favorite World Ocean Radio episodes that highlight optimism for the ocean. This week we outline the myria...
- Added: Aug 10, 2022
- Length: 05:16
A ban on single use plastic went into effect in India last month. But food and beverage companies like Coca Cola and Pepsico are saying they cannot...
- Added: Aug 08, 2022
- Length: 06:00
Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity consumes from Nature more than the planet can provide, either as natural or renewable resources in...
- Added: Jul 27, 2022
- Length: 05:38
Dr Sulochana Gadgil started studying the Indian monsoon when she was at Harvard in the 1960s. She's been tracking it back in India since 1971. And ...
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- Added: Jul 19, 2022
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
This summer we are revisiting some of our favorite World Ocean Radio episodes that highlight optimism in ocean news, science and advocacy. In this ...
- Added: Jul 13, 2022
- Length: 05:06
This summer we are revisiting some of our favorite World Ocean Radio episodes that highlight optimism in ocean news, science and advocacy. In this ...
- Added: Jul 06, 2022
- Length: 04:51
