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Earth Overshoot Day 2019
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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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
2019-07-05 Winners and Losers
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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The new climate reality means that those living on a hill will be affected by flooding in the valley, while those living in the North will be affec...

Bought by WJCT, WCQS, WMUU-LP, KBBI Alaska, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Jul 02, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 11
190705: Winners and Losers, 7/5/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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The new climate reality means that even those living on a hill will be affected by flooding in the valley, and those living in the North will be af...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
190628: The Uninhabitable Earth, 6/28/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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According to David Wallace-Wells, we’re cooked – literally. In his new book The Uninhabitable Earth, Wallace-Wells explores how climate change will...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
2019-06-28 The Uninhabitable Earth
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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According to David Wallace-Wells, we’re cooked – literally. In his new book "The Uninhabitable Earth," Wallace-Wells explores how climate change wi...

Bought by WCNY, WJCT, Nevada Public Radio, WCQS, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jun 25, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 10
190510: Sea Changes: Why Oceans Play a Bigger Role in Climate Than You Think, 5/10/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Global temperatures would be soaring even higher were it not for a powerful heat-trapping ally: oceans. From regulating the temperature of the plan...

  • Added: May 09, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
Citizen Science and the Ocean
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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
2019-04-12 Climate One at Harvard With Obama’s Climate Team
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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With the Green New Deal in the national spotlight, a vigorous debate is happening: how ambitiously and broadly must the U.S. act on climate? Are is...

Bought by WJCT, WCQS, NPR Now, MPR News Stations, KHSQ and more


  • Added: Apr 10, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 9
190412: Climate One at Harvard With Obama’s Climate Team, 4/12/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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With the Green New Deal in the national spotlight, a vigorous debate is happening: how ambitiously and broadly must the U.S. act on climate? Are is...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
190308: If Global Warming Exists, Why is it so Cold Outside?, 3/8/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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The last five years have been the hottest on record globally. But this past winter, plunging temperatures, snowstorms and torrential rains througho...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2019
  • Length: 58:56
2019-03-08 If Global Warming Exists, Why is it so Cold Outside?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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The last five years have been the hottest on record globally. But this past winter, plunging temperatures, snowstorms and torrential rains througho...

Bought by WJCT, WCQS, KUHF, KFCF FM, NPR Now and more


  • Added: Mar 05, 2019
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 11
2019-02-10 Katharine Hayhoe: Why We Need to Talk About Climate Change
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: Katharine Hayhoe, recipient of the 2018 Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Science Communication
Many of us find it daunting to talk with our neighbors, colleagues and family members about climate change. But climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe ...

Bought by WJCT, WCQS, KBBI Alaska, KVMR, MPR News Stations and more


  • Added: Feb 07, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 8
2018-12-16 Mind Over Chatter: Exploring Climate Psychology
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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We all know about the environmental and physical effects of climate change. But what about its impact on our mental health? Therapists report that ...

Bought by WJCT, KVNF, KZYX, NPR Now, WLPR and more


  • Added: Dec 12, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 6
C1 Fundraiser
From: Climate One
Caption: L-R: Bill Nye, Jane Goodall, Al Gore
Former Vice-President Al Gore, famed primatologist Jane Goodall, and TV scientist-turned-activist Bill Nye are three climate veterans who have lost...

Bought by KUSU and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 04, 2018
  • Length: 40:55
  • Purchases: 2
2018-07-22 Conversations with Climate Storytellers
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: L-R: Andrew Revkin, Elizabeth Kolbert, David Roberts
Science and environmental reporter Andrew Revkin has been writing about climate change since the 1980s, including 21 years for The New York Times. ...

Bought by WJCT, KZYX, KVNF, NPR Now, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more


  • Added: Jul 19, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 7
Arctic Fisheries Management
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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As fisheries worldwide are being depleted by over-fishing and illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing (IUU), interest in an ever-expanding Arc...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2017
  • Length: 05:16
2017-08-13 A Conversation with Jane Goodall
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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For much of her nearly six-decade-long career, Dr. Jane Goodall has worked to raise awareness about the importance of protecting our planet. The Ja...

Bought by KQUA, KUHF, KWIT, WDET Detroit Public Radio, WCQS and more


  • Added: Aug 09, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 6
Who Governs the High Seas?
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Since the creation and ratification of the United Nations Convention of the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), many international experts have debated how be...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2017
  • Length: 04:33
2017-07-02 Youth in the Streets and in the Courts
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: Corina McWilliams, Co-director, Earth Guardians 350 Club, South Eugene High School
As Buffalo Springfield sang in 1967, “There’s something happening here…” But today’s youth revolution is happening far beyond the Sunset Strip. The...

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, KWIT, KUHF, KWMR, and NPR Now


  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 5
2017-01-29 Ecological Intelligence
From: Climate One
Caption: Josh Freedman, George Lakoff, Daniel Goleman, Greg Dalton, Credit: Ed Ritger
Evolution designed our brains to protect us from immediate, day-to-day threats to our survival. But environmental change is a less than clear, less...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
Optimism and the Law
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Bearded seal, Erignathus barbatus, Alaskan Arctic , Credit: Marine Bio | Sharing The Wonders of the Ocean
This week we continue the Earth Optimism Series, a 24-episode project in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution's Ocean Portal, to address oc...

  • Added: Nov 21, 2016
  • Length: 05:20
Between Two Worlds
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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This week we continue the Earth Optimism Series, a 24-episode project in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution's Ocean Portal, to address oc...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2016
  • Length: 05:21
Seagrass in Tampa Bay
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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In the 20th century, U.S. waterways had become dumping grounds for industrial, urban, and agricultural waste. Today many of these waterways are get...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Oct 26, 2016
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
Putting the "Eco" Back into Economics with David Suzuki
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: David Suzuki
Author, radio host, and scientist David Suzuki has spent a lifetime working to protect the environment. But he says that work is failing, and a pa...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
181: From Natural System to Social System
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: The Ocean, Our Future, Credit: Mario Soares, Independent World Commission on the Future of the Oceans
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will suggest that we must move beyond the narrow perception of the ocean as a natural system...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2012
  • Length: 05:38