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This week on World Ocean Radio we offer part three of a four-part series devoted to "The Outlaw Ocean", a new book by award-winning New York Times ...
- Added: Sep 24, 2019
- Length: 04:56
The outlaw ocean, a space apart, hidden from view, a place of rampant criminality and exploitation. This week on World Ocean Radio we offer part on...
- Added: Sep 19, 2019
- Length: 05:32
The outlaw ocean, a space apart, hidden from view, a place of rampant criminality and exploitation. This week on World Ocean Radio we offer part on...
- Added: Sep 10, 2019
- Length: 05:07
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
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
"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...
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- Added: Jul 23, 2019
- Length: 04:40
- Purchases: 1
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
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
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