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Bio-Regional Thinking and the Deep Sea
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Bio-regions on Earth are organized into types, then realms, and are further distinguished and mapped for planning, strategizing, developing, and as...

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  • Added: May 08, 2024
  • Length: 05:13
  • Purchases: 1
Saving Endangered Species (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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The red colobus monkey is one of the most endangered primates in the world. Found in West, East, and Central Africa, the once thriving species has ...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KEDT, WMUU-LP, WTJU, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Nov 11, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 10
Saving Endangered Species (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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The red colobus monkey is one of the most endangered primates in the world. Found in West, East, and Central Africa, the once thriving species has ...

Bought by KMUN, WXDU, Kansas Public Radio, WJCU, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 11, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
Saving Endangered Species (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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The red colobus monkey is one of the most endangered primates in the world. Found in west, east, and central Africa, the once thriving species has ...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WNED Buffalo, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Nov 11, 2021
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 4
Sustainable Development in a Post-Covid World
From: Mateo Schimpf
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How are cities from Pittsburgh to Bogotá using sustainable development goals to guide pandemic recovery and increase health and equity?

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  • Added: Oct 21, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Ocean and Humans are Inextricably Interconnected
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Undersea cables carry telecommunications and Internet data globally, Credit: TeleGeography
"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 Coming Collapse of World Water
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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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
479-Comet Catalina
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Comet C/2018 M1 (Catalina) is eternal in the sense that it will likely wander the vast space between the stars in our Milky Way Galaxy until the e...

Bought by KGLP, KENW, WLPR , KKRN, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana and more


  • Added: Jul 19, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
445-Not So Secret
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A partnership of humans and computers will help to minimize the damage when asteroid hunters find a space rock with our number on it.

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KKRN, KRWG, and KUPR low power FM


  • Added: Mar 22, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
It's A Jungle Out There (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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The disappearing Amazon has lost 20% of its forest cover - Studying the toothy beasts of the Rio Negro - A Guyanan songbird's journey to NYC

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, WCQS, WUGA (part of GPB), KMUN and more


  • Added: Aug 18, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 10
376-Active Asteroids
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Some asteroids become comets giving rise to beautiful meteor showers.

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  • Added: Jul 20, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
294-Dangerous Duo
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Asteroid hunters have discovered two more asteroids which could become a threat to planet Earth.

Bought by WTIP, Radio Newark, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana and more


  • Added: Oct 06, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
An Ocean Ethos for a World That's Lost Its Way
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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e·thos / ??THäs noun. the characteristic spirit of a culture, era, or community as manifested in its beliefs and aspirations. The environmental and...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2016
  • Length: 05:15
The Arctic Garden
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: USCG cutter Healy in the Arctic , Credit: Courtesy of Mathis/NOAA
In a continuing conversation about the future of the Arctic, host Peter Neill shares his concerns about the disconnect between a strong commitment ...

  • Added: Nov 10, 2015
  • Length: 05:26
Water Consciousness in a Global Crisis
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Fresh water shortages are making headlines everywhere. Issues large and small are adding up to a global water crisis which threatens all of us, ric...

  • Added: Oct 26, 2015
  • Length: 05:17
The Climate Group
From: World Ocean Observatory
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As a lead up to the Climate Summit in Paris scheduled for December (COP21), World Ocean Radio will highlight some encouraging signs of climate prog...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2015
  • Length: 05:27
Climate Future Planning
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: A 2015 report on the impact of climate change on allergies in adults and children shows that increased temperatures, changing moisture patterns, and accelerated growth and distribution of pollen has generated symptoms of allergic reactions never before ex
The climate is changing: changing moisture, increased temperature, accelerated growth and distribution of pollen, increased allergic reactions. Sci...

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  • Added: Sep 29, 2015
  • Length: 05:23
  • Purchases: 1
Ocean Radiation
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: The spots monitored for Fukushima radiation by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution., Credit: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
The effects of leaking radiation have long raised concerns as a cause for many inexplicable natural events at sea. Since 2004 Ken Buesseler and his...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2015
  • Length: 05:17
Sand Wars
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Chinese dredging vessels in the waters around Mischief Reef in the disputed Spratly Islands. Still shot is from video taken by a U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon surveillance aircraft (May 2015). , Credit: REUTERS/U.S. Navy/Handout via Reuters.
After water, the largest volume of natural material used to support global growth is sand. Demand has grown exponentially in the last two decades a...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2015
  • Length: 05:30
Planning with Water, Part 3
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Bujagali Falls, The Nile River, Uganda, Credit: Used courtesy of UNEP
In this episode of World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill continues a discussion about the most important issue facing the world today: the global wate...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2015
  • Length: 05:32
Planning with Water, Part 2
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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In this episode of World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill discusses the most important issue facing the world today: the global water crisis. Is it pos...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2015
  • Length: 05:13
Global Water Contract, Part II
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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In Part II of a 2-part series on the Global Water Contract, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill explains the Committee's progressive recommendations...

  • Added: Oct 14, 2014
  • Length: 05:21
Global Water Contract, Part I
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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In 1998, a private commission was assembled to create a framework for worldwide understanding of fresh water as an inalienable human right. In this...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2014
  • Length: 05:04
The Arctic Council
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: http://www.arctic-council.org, Credit: The Arctic Council
In 1996, the high level intergovernmental Arctic Council was formed to promote cooperation and interaction among the Arctic states. In this episode...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2014
  • Length: 05:23
224: Reciprocity Part II
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Man throwing cast net , Credit: Mangrove Action Project | MarinePhotobank.org
In the last edition of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill suggested reciprocity as a value on which to build our response to the environmental deg...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2013
  • Length: 05:13