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This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews:
Right-Wing Terrorist Groups on the Rise as Trump Cuts Funds to Fight Whit...
- Added: Jun 26, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
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
Produce, consume, discard; we all know the routine. Raw materials are extracted, produced into goods, and used -- sometimes only once -- before tur...
Bought by WJCT, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KWIT, WCQS, KSQD Santa Cruz and more
- Added: Jun 20, 2019
- Length: 58:55
- Purchases: 10
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The last five years have been the hottest on record globally. But this past winter, plunging temperatures, snowstorms and torrential rains througho...
- Added: Mar 05, 2019
- Length: 58:56
- Purchases: 11
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
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
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...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Nov 27, 2018
- Length: 05:07
- Purchases: 1
"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 and life in the ocean shape the features of Earth." So states the second principle of the ocean literacy curriculum, a series of fundame...
- Added: Aug 28, 2018
- Length: 05:04
There has long been public opposition to deep sea mining, a technology that extracts resources from the ocean floor. In this episode of World Ocean...
- Added: Jul 24, 2018
- Length: 05:23
In this week's episode of World Ocean Radio we discuss publications, reports, and projects that are integral to the evolution of ocean policy and s...
- Added: Jul 09, 2018
- Length: 05:38
Carbon offsets offer ways for retailers and consumers to help meet the challenge of climate impacts and environmental consequences, and can be an e...
- Added: Jul 05, 2018
- Length: 05:11
Are GMOs the answer to our planet’s food shortage? Or are they jeopardizing our health, crops and climate by creating a destructive cycle of Roundu...
Bought by WJCT, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, WDET Detroit Public Radio, KWIT, Georgia Public Broadcasting and more
- Added: Jun 19, 2018
- Length: 58:54
- Purchases: 10
In 1968, the best-seller “The Population Bomb” (written by Paul and Anne Ehrlich, but credited solely to Paul) warned of the perils of overpopulati...
Bought by WJCT, KPIP-LP, KUHF, WDET Detroit Public Radio, WUTC and more
- Added: Apr 24, 2018
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 9
In an emergency, we’re told to “break the glass” and grab the fire extinguisher. If we’re in the midst of a climate emergency, is there a firehose ...
Bought by WJCT, KPIP-LP, KUHF, KWIT, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more
- Added: Apr 19, 2018
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 9
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