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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
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
In this episode of World Ocean Radio we discuss the natural security provided by the ocean edge: the barrier effect of mangroves, beaches, cliffs, ...
- Added: Feb 04, 2019
- Length: 04:40
We have long enjoyed the ocean edge for leisurely ends: as a place to gather with family and friends to enjoy surf and sand, and to relax in the fr...
- Added: Jan 29, 2019
- Length: 04:35
This week we begin to present the ocean edge in thematic ways with The Working Edge, outlining the various social structures, industries, exchange,...
- Added: Jan 22, 2019
- Length: 05:12
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
The ocean, in its constant motion, offers solace and support for the human spirit and provides an immersion in nature for renewal and regeneration....
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- Added: Jan 04, 2019
- Length: 04:02
- Purchases: 1
'Tis the season for our end-of-year episode. Each year at the holidays, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reads At The Fishhouses, a poem by Eliza...
- Added: Dec 26, 2018
- Length: 04:34
In this episode of World Ocean Radio we discuss The Earth Law Center, a New York-based environmental non-profit organization that is dedicated to t...
- Added: Dec 18, 2018
- Length: 05:19
This week on World Ocean Radio we introduce listeners to two women who are planning to embark on an unsupported exploration in the Arctic: 270 days...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Dec 04, 2018
- Length: 04:46
- Purchases: 1
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...
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- Added: Nov 27, 2018
- Length: 05:07
- Purchases: 1
In this episode of World Ocean Radio we discuss publications, reports, and projects integral to the evolution of ocean policy and science, includin...
- Added: Nov 20, 2018
- Length: 05:17
On the heels of the Arctic Circle Conference in Reykjavik, Iceland in October, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill offers some additional thoughts o...
- Added: Nov 13, 2018
- Length: 05:08
The first Arctic highway was the sea: a moving, shifting, frozen system that allowed its inhabitants to be sustained for generations. Since 1974, t...
- Added: Oct 30, 2018
- Length: 04:57
Ships have long been used for exploration and trade, as well as for colonial expansion and conflicts at sea. We are using technological achievement...
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- Added: Oct 22, 2018
- Length: 10:44
- Purchases: 1
