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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
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There has never been a better time to become a citizen scientist: curious individuals interested in collecting data to build toward solutions, expa...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2019
  • Length: 04:49
Caption: Ko Phi Phi, Thailand, Credit:  Reiseuhu on Unsplash
How do we describe the relationship between human society and nature? This week on World Ocean Radio we discuss what it means to be a stakeholder, ...

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Oct 08, 2019
  • Length: 05:27
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on World Ocean Radio we conclude our four-part series devoted to "The Outlaw Ocean", a new book by award-winning New York Times investiga...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2019
  • Length: 04:39
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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
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The rich, greedy and a value system that only cares about profit. Let's not let 45 and/or the media pit UAW striking workers against climate strik...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2019
  • Length: 03:30
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Caption: The Law of Mother Earth: protecting the well-being of its citizens by protecting the natural world
"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...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 23, 2019
  • Length: 04:40
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Wolf Schram for Unsplash
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
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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
Caption: Desalination plant in Hamburg, Germany, Credit: World Atlas | worldatlas.com/articles/can-we-make-drinking-water-out-of-ocean-water.html
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
Caption: Rivedoux-Plage, Charente-Maritime, southwestern France , Credit: Sweet Ice Cream Photography
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
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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
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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
Caption: "Charlotte’s Hope” was tagged and observed by scientists from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, and filmed by BBC 1 for Blue Planet Live, in Charlotte Bay on the Antarctic Peninsula on March 11, 2019. Charlotte's Hope was then adopted and named by Peter
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
Caption: Phytoplankton (and algae) form the lowest trophic level, the base of the aquatic food web, Credit: NOAA | www.noaa.gov
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
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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
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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
Caption: 500 Episodes, Credit: World Ocean Radio
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
Caption: Yale Climate Connections 2018 Report, Credit: Yale Climate Connections
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
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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