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In this episode of World Ocean Radio, part 2 of a two-part series on environmental law, host Peter Neill provides a series of examples of systems w...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2018
  • Length: 05:14
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In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill outlines laws that are intended to protect Nature and its resources--water, fresh air, food,...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2018
  • Length: 05:17
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Volkswagen’s brazen cheating on air pollution rules rocked an industry with a history of skulduggery. The scandal has now cost the company $30 bill...

Bought by KPIP-LP, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KWIT, and NPR Now


  • Added: Apr 05, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
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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
Caption: Offshore aquaculture operation, Credit: NMFS/NOAA
Aquaculture has long been a controversial industry fraught with conflict: waste and feed pollution, use of antibiotics, escape of genetically modif...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2018
  • Length: 05:08
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World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill recently returned from the Economist World Ocean Summit in Cancún, Mexico where he gathered with 400 ocean leade...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2018
  • Length: 05:52
Caption: L-R: Patrick Flynn, Aron Cramer, Lynelle Cameron
Tech companies are cleaning up their data centers and building shiny new buildings that sip water and energy. But are they really as green as they ...

Bought by KPIP-LP, KWIT, and NPR Now


  • Added: Mar 15, 2018
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Svalbard, Norway , Credit: Thomas Hallermann | Marine Photobank
The pursuit for oil continues, even as many alternatives emerge and investments are displaced. In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Nei...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2018
  • Length: 04:50
Caption: Christine Pelosi and Debbie Dooley
Executive Committeewoman of Democratic National Committee Christine Pelosi, as well as staunch Trump supporter and clean energy advocate, Debbie Do...

Bought by KPIP-LP, WDET Detroit Public Radio, KWIT, and NPR Now


  • Added: Mar 08, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 4
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Early in 2018, BlackRock asset management chair Larry Fink issued a statement declaring growing public demand for companies to serve a social purpo...

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Mar 06, 2018
  • Length: 05:27
  • Purchases: 1
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Ocean technologies and exploration are expanding at a remarkable pace, giving scientists and casual observers more data by which to learn more abou...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2018
  • Length: 05:04
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We live in an age of constant chatter, yet we are failing globally to communicate meaningfully on issues related to Arctic governance and its natur...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2018
  • Length: 04:38
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It was in 1970, under President Nixon, that the Environmental Protection Agency was founded. While the Agency enjoyed tremendous bipartisan support...

Bought by KPIP-LP, WDET Detroit Public Radio, KUNM, KWIT, KBBI Alaska and more


  • Added: Feb 01, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 6
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What if we were to accept water--in all its forms and functions--as the system around which we organize and calculate value as a contribution to pr...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2018
  • Length: 05:09
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On June 9th, 2018, a March For The Ocean (M4O) will take place in Washington, D.C. and in cities around the world. In this episode of World Ocean R...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Jan 23, 2018
  • Length: 04:52
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Bruce Gibney, author, "A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America"
Consumption-crazed baby boomers are leaving millenials with a mountain of debt and a destabilized climate. In his book "A Generation of Sociopaths:...

Bought by KPIP-LP, KUHF, KWIT, KBBI Alaska, WLPR and more


  • Added: Jan 18, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: A jungle cat (aka not a Tiger), Credit: Sandip Roy
What's in a tiger sighting? For some it's more important than anything else.

  • Added: Jan 15, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
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What is the framework by which to outline our values, structures, and behaviors regarding the ocean, fresh water, and all the benefits of nature re...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 05:07
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Conservation begins at home – literally. Designing and operating a home that generates as much power as it uses is rapidly becoming a reality. Mean...

Bought by KPIP-LP, WDET Detroit Public Radio, KWIT, WLPR , and NPR Now


  • Added: Jan 04, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 5
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This week on World Ocean Radio we celebrate marine protected areas and discuss their importance to biodiversity, ecosystem resilience, and the miti...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2018
  • Length: 04:30
Caption: Fresh Water Ecoregions, Credit: conservationgateway.org
This week on World Ocean Radio we talk about springs, those fresh water seeps that serve as an integral part of the earth's water system. We introd...

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Dec 12, 2017
  • Length: 05:32
  • Purchases: 1
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What do football, tobacco and oil have in common? A common narrative of deceit. When tobacco companies faced public scrutiny about the link between...

Bought by WORT, KWIT, KCPW Salt Lake City, and NPR Now


  • Added: Dec 07, 2017
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Plastic pollution "confetti" mixes with baby blue velellas in the northern pacific plastic gyre., Credit: Karin Malmstrom, Marine Photobank
In this issue of World Ocean Radio we ask who benefits from current solutions to ocean acidification, co2 emissions, and plastic pollution, and if ...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2017
  • Length: 05:13
Caption: Ocean surface model created using MATLAB
In this week's episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill outlines some of the various applications of the oft-times controversial artificial i...

  • Added: Nov 28, 2017
  • Length: 05:12
Caption: Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker YAMAL. , Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Who Owns the Economic Rights to Arctic Resources? This week on World Ocean Radio: part five of a multi-part series on the Arctic. In this episode, ...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2017
  • Length: 05:12