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This week concludes the nine-part ocean literacy series, a framework for formal and informal education to help us better understand the ocean's inf...
- Added: May 14, 2020
- Length: 04:35
"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: May 05, 2020
- Length: 04:52
"The ocean and humans are inextricably interconnected." So states the sixth Ocean Literacy principle, a series of fundamental concepts to help us b...
- Added: Apr 29, 2020
- Length: 04:45
"The ocean supports a great diversity of life and ecosystems."
So states the fifth Ocean Literacy principle, a series of fundamental concepts to he...
- Added: Apr 20, 2020
- Length: 04:39
"The ocean makes Earth habitable."
So states the fourth Ocean Literacy principle, a series of fundamental concepts to help us better understand the...
- Added: Apr 13, 2020
- Length: 04:20
"The ocean is a major influence on weather and climate."
So states the third Ocean Literacy principle, a series of fundamental concepts to help us ...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Apr 08, 2020
- Length: 04:59
- Purchases: 1
"The Earth Has One Big Ocean With Many Features." So states the first principle of the ocean literacy curriculum, a series of fundamental concepts ...
- Added: Mar 10, 2020
- Length: 04:21
This week's episode of World Ocean Radio kicks off a multi-part series on the key principles of Ocean Literacy. The next eight episodes will provid...
- Added: Mar 04, 2020
- Length: 04:14
Alternative energy is needed more today than ever before. In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill asserts that the fossil fuel era i...
- Added: Feb 24, 2020
- Length: 04:59
In the middle ages, alchemists for a time believed they could turn base metal into gold. This early endeavor may be the origin story for modern inv...
- Added: Jan 07, 2020
- Length: 04:31
A scientific paper published in May 2019 states that eight urgent, simultaneous actions are needed to head off potential ecological disaster in the...
Bought by WRIR
- Added: Nov 05, 2019
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
Increasingly, people around the world are experiencing a fresh water crisis. More than 17 countries are under high water stress, and one fourth of ...
- Added: Oct 22, 2019
- Length: 05:25
You know you haven’t been hiking or botanizing out in the desert or grassland enough when you look to the roadsides for interesting plants, but I’l...
- Added: Sep 24, 2019
- Length: 05:13
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
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 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
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
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
An audio postcard featuring the northern harrier. Formerly called a marsh hawk, naturalist Ken Burton shares some life history about this easily id...
Bought by WNED Buffalo and Radio Newark
- Added: Mar 12, 2019
- Length: 01:59
- Purchases: 2