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Carbon offset programs offer ways for retailers and consumers to help address the challenge of climate impacts and environmental consequences, and ...
- Added: Feb 11, 2020
- Length: 10:51
Since the mid 2000s, economists have spoken of Black Swans, disruptive financial events that embody three special characteristics: they are rare, w...
- Added: Feb 04, 2020
- Length: 05:52
This week on World Ocean Radio we highlight the innovative work of the Sasagawa Peace Foundation in Tokyo, Japan, an organization using philanthrop...
- Added: Jan 21, 2020
- Length: 05:48
Moken is a Thai word meaning sea people, people of water, sea nomads or sea gypsies. The Moken are a group of Austronesian people of an archipelago...
- Added: Jan 14, 2020
- Length: 05:32
In the middle ages, alchemists for a time believed they could turn base metal into gold. This early endeavor may be the origin story for modern inv...
- Added: Jan 07, 2020
- Length: 04:31
This week on World Ocean Radio we tell a tale of two cities--Newtok, Alaska (pop. 380) and Jakarta, Indonesia (pop. 30 mil)--6,000 miles apart yet ...
- Added: Dec 03, 2019
- Length: 05:22
How many ways do we hear the sound of water? In this episode of World Ocean Radio we explore water, the most essential element on earth, and the wa...
- Added: Nov 26, 2019
- Length: 04:45
Fish markets are the noisy, colorful, exiting, authentic and lively centers of any coastal city, the place where mongers and customers, tourists an...
- Added: Nov 19, 2019
- Length: 05:23
In this episode of World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reflects on the coming of winter and the collection of the last of the harvest to sustain us-...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Nov 12, 2019
- Length: 04:41
- Purchases: 1
A scientific paper published in May 2019 states that eight urgent, simultaneous actions are needed to head off potential ecological disaster in the...
Bought by WRIR
- Added: Nov 05, 2019
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
Renée Zellweger gives a stunning performance as Judy Garland in the last year of her life, performing in London while suffering from the drug addic...
Bought by WOUB
- Added: Oct 30, 2019
- Length: 04:34
- Purchases: 1
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
"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
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
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
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
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
