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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
This week on the show: Kaboom -
Like destroying things? We all do. So much so that scientists in even Europe are planning a 100-kilometer meg...
- Added: May 08, 2019
- Length: 30:00
HOUR ONE: "Hope: Are We Really Doomed?" - Can hope co-exist with cataclysmic realities like climate change? We conclude our "Hope" series with a lo...
- Added: May 03, 2019
- Length: 01:58:58
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
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
Northern California’s now infamous Camp Fire was not only the largest, longest, and deadliest wildfire in the state’s history, it also produced rec...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Dec 19, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
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...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Nov 27, 2018
- Length: 05:07
- Purchases: 1
This week on the show: Your breath smells like emotional tension -
Follow us into a darkened German cinema to talk about how the stuff we breathe...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle
- Added: Nov 14, 2018
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
On this episode of Culture Clique, we have Part one of our story on electric vehicles and charging stations in Winona, MN. Today we talk to John Ho...
- Added: Oct 19, 2018
- Length: 19:03
This week on the show: How do you "graduate" astronaut school? We ask Europe's newest astronaut. Also, the strange story of a roaring Himalayan flo...
- Added: Oct 10, 2018
- Length: 30:00
With the melting of Antarctica’s ice and the Greenland ice sheet, projections for the oceans to rise dramatically and quickly are increasing. Watch...
Bought by WJCT, KZYX, NPR Now, KWIT, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more
- Added: Aug 25, 2018
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 9
The stuff in Scotchguard and Teflon coatings is poisoning water supplies and never goes away It's even been found in animals on the North Pole! Wit...
- Added: Aug 23, 2018
- Length: 05:27
There is no silver bullet to solve the intractable problem of global warming. Nevertheless, there is a lot of vital and hopeful work being done to ...
- Added: Aug 22, 2018
- Length: 28:30
There has long been public opposition to deep sea mining, a technology that extracts resources from the ocean floor. In this episode, part two of a...
- Added: Aug 01, 2018
- Length: 05:16
There has long been public opposition to deep sea mining, a technology that extracts resources from the ocean floor. In this episode of World Ocean...
- Added: Jul 24, 2018
- Length: 05:23
In this week's episode of World Ocean Radio we discuss publications, reports, and projects that are integral to the evolution of ocean policy and s...
- Added: Jul 09, 2018
- Length: 05:38
If you’re thinking about going solar then this show is for you. Today we’ll talk about community solar energy options in your area and how you can ...
- Added: Jun 08, 2018
- Length: 24:43
On this week's show: We are all living on a volcano.
What's it like living next a shaking, spewing volcano? And what's coming next for Hawaiians?...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: May 29, 2018
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
Spectrum: Inside out -
On the show this week: Hike Elba's trails without ever leaving the armchair, Germany's young hackers aren't really hack...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: May 22, 2018
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
World in Progress: A lab for the future – Smart Cities in Finland -
The "Smart cities" of the future will be digital and connected, using smar...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 30:00
If you ask most people what they think of blockchain applications or cryptocurrency, the response is usually a blank stare of utter bafflement. Wel...
- Added: Apr 25, 2018
- Length: 29:30
In an emergency, we’re told to “break the glass” and grab the fire extinguisher. If we’re in the midst of a climate emergency, is there a firehose ...
Bought by WJCT, KPIP-LP, KUHF, KWIT, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more
- Added: Apr 19, 2018
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 9
A recent video showing a torrent of plastic rushing down a river in Guatemala prompted World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill to respond this week with...
- Added: Apr 03, 2018
- Length: 05:23
In the future one can envision a space mining family boarding a descendent of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy Launch Vehicle for a trip into low Earth orb...
- Added: Mar 22, 2018
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 6
