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Scientist Dr. Tracy Frisch explains why spreading fertilizer from sewage sludge is a really bad idea.

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jan 16, 2024
  • Length: 28:09
  • Purchases: 1
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We are aware of the key role played by insurance, more so as we face increasing events of extreme weather destruction. Government agencies are sign...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2023
  • Length: 05:16
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What's wrong with dumping a million gallons of radioactive wastewater into the Hudson River?

Bought by WRFA-LP, WYAP, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Sep 04, 2023
  • Length: 28:23
  • Purchases: 3
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch was just the beginning for author and photographer Erica Cirino.

  • Added: Jun 26, 2023
  • Length: 28:25
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Fore EPA Region II Administrator Judith Enck tells why we need legislation to make companies like Coca Cola do the right thing.

Bought by WRFA-LP and WMUU-LP


  • Added: May 15, 2023
  • Length: 28:32
  • Purchases: 2
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Is a 100% clean, renewable energy future by the year 2050 possible? Stanford Professor Mark Z. Jacobson proposes that the most efficient and social...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
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Our guest Dr. Scott Coffin [https://scottcoff.in/] has been studying plastic since 2014. He is a toxicologist and Research Scientist at California ...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
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Elizabeth Azzuz, Secretary of Cultural Fire Management Council, discusses her work using Traditional Native Karuk methods of prescribed burning to ...

Bought by KMUN and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Sep 18, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 2
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On this week’s episode, we hear from two experts with competing visions of how we can sustainably feed a growing planet.

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  • Added: Sep 08, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
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We look into the truth about compostable foodservice and packaging with Erin Levine, Resource Recovery Manager at World Centric [https://www.worldc...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
Caption: Portugal coast , Credit: Tobia Tullius
This week we're discussing the consequence of consumption. We point to a recent exhibit entitled "Waste Age: What Can Design Do?" that highlights t...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2022
  • Length: 05:32
Caption: Plastic pollution and juvenile fish, Credit: Naja Bertolt Jensen @naja_bertolt_jensen on Unsplash
This week on World Ocean Radio we're weighing in on the debate of water as food. Many are certain that it is not because it does not have the same ...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2022
  • Length: 05:17
Caption: Bray, France, Credit: Stijn te Strake on Unsplash
"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: Sep 04, 2018
  • Length: 05:06
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: April 21 - 23, 2017, Credit: Earth Optimism Summit, Washington, D.C.
In September of 2016, World Ocean Observatory began a collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution's Ocean Portal to promote the Earth Optimism S...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2017
  • Length: 04:42
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In September the World Ocean Observatory was invited to attend the Our Ocean Conference hosted by the U.S. State Department in Washington D.C. Duri...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2016
  • Length: 05:30
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"Are we training our best new minds in the worst ways?" In this week's episode of World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill asks this question and more of...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2016
  • Length: 05:10
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A small asteroid has become a third partner in the Earth-Moon dance.

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


  • Added: Jun 30, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: IISD Report: State of Sustainability Initiatives Review
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill discusses a recent report entitled "The State of Sustainability Initiatives Review: Standard...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Jun 28, 2016
  • Length: 05:17
  • Purchases: 1
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The water crisis in Flint, Michigan has been dominating the news cycle for some weeks. The story points to tragic mismanagement of the city’s water...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2016
  • Length: 05:44
Caption: Mark Jacobson
Dr. Mark Jacobson, distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University, is on-air with us to explain the economic...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Jan 13, 2016
  • Length: 59:24
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Andy Skuce
Former oil exploration geologist, Andy Skuce, talks with us about the science behind COP21 decisions and what the future will most likely look like...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2015
  • Length: 59:19
Caption: Peter Seidel
Dr. Doug Craig, Climate of Change Blog, co-hosts on Unspun as we discuss how much time we have before the catastrophe of Climate Change is upon us ...

  • Added: Nov 23, 2015
  • Length: 58:58
Caption: D.R. Tucker
Dr. Doug Craig, great blogger at Climate of Change and his Free Therapy blog on ANewscafe, co-hosts with us again. We discuss Global Warming denie...

  • Added: May 13, 2015
  • Length: 59:09
Caption: Michael Mann
Dr. Doug Craig co-hosts with me, as Unspun revisits the most serious issue of our time, Climate Change (of course), with Dr. Michael Mann. Dr. Mic...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2015
  • Length: 58:25
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In this episode of World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill continues discussion of the global water crisis. This week he talks about water audits conduc...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2015
  • Length: 05:31