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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
An audio postcard featuring the northern harrier. Formerly called a marsh hawk, naturalist Ken Burton shares some life history about this easily id...
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- Added: Mar 12, 2019
- Length: 01:59
- Purchases: 2
This segment of Sound Ecology celebrates the white-tailed kite. Naturalist Ken Burton shares some life history and behavior of this "angel hawk".
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- Added: Mar 12, 2019
- Length: 01:59
- Purchases: 2
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
Estuaries are ecologically rich and important components of our coastal ecosystems. Fish biologist Katherine Osborn wrote this segment of Sound Eco...
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- Added: Feb 25, 2019
- Length: 01:28
- Purchases: 2
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
'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...
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- 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
2018 was a summer of extremes: hurricanes, wildfires, drought, floods, heat, earthquakes, tsunami. It's increasingly evident that human interventio...
- Added: Oct 16, 2018
- Length: 05:19
For the past eight weeks we have been discussing the concepts of ocean literacy, a framework for formal and informal education to help us better un...
- Added: Oct 09, 2018
- Length: 05:08
"The ocean is largely unexplored."
So states the seventh and final Ocean Literacy principle, a series of fundamental concepts to help us better und...
- Added: Oct 02, 2018
- Length: 05:10
"The ocean and humans are inextricably interconnected."
So states the sixth Ocean Literacy principle, a series of fundamental concepts to help us b...
- Added: Sep 24, 2018
- Length: 05:10
"The ocean supports a great diversity of life and ecosystems."
So states the fifth Ocean Literacy principle, a series of fundamental concepts to he...
- Added: Sep 20, 2018
- Length: 04:58
"The ocean makes Earth habitable."
So states the fourth Ocean Literacy principle, a series of fundamental concepts to help us better understand the...
- Added: Sep 11, 2018
- Length: 04:42
