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What does it mean to be accountable for our actions? Individuals are accountable for personal behaviors, commitments, and relationships with those ...
- Added: Feb 16, 2016
- Length: 05:13
The water crisis in Flint, Michigan has been dominating the news cycle for some weeks. The story points to tragic mismanagement of the city’s water...
- Added: Feb 09, 2016
- Length: 05:44
Fresh water is the topic of discussion once again on World Ocean Radio. In this episode host Peter Neill re-asserts the gravity of the global fresh...
- Added: Jan 28, 2016
- Length: 05:02
The US Navy's SEALAB initiative is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, with now three pioneering aquatic living experiments under their bel...
- Added: Jan 19, 2016
- Length: 05:04
There are many whale-related hot button topics being discussed today: hunting (particularly by the Japanese), seismic testing, inexplicable strandi...
- Added: Jan 08, 2016
- Length: 04:42
At the close of each year, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reads "At The Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop. This poem was chosen not only for its ...
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- Added: Dec 29, 2015
- Length: 04:57
- Purchases: 1
Record numbers of migrants are taking to the seas to escape political strife, sectarian conflict and war, crossing the Aegean and Mediterranean sea...
- Added: Dec 22, 2015
- Length: 04:23
In October of 2015 Peter Neill, Director of World Ocean Observatory and host of World Ocean Radio, attended the bi-annual conference of the Interna...
- Added: Dec 17, 2015
- Length: 05:32
The Arctic conversation concludes this week with "An Arctic Vision." In this episode, host Peter Neill focuses on the indigenous Arctic community a...
- Added: Dec 08, 2015
- Length: 05:20
The conversation continues this week about the future of the Arctic. In this episode of World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill will argue that now is t...
- Added: Nov 24, 2015
- Length: 05:31
The conversation continues about the future of the Arctic this week with further outcomes from the Arctic Circle Assembly in Reykjavik, Iceland. Du...
- Added: Nov 17, 2015
- Length: 05:16
In a continuing conversation about the future of the Arctic, host Peter Neill shares his concerns about the disconnect between a strong commitment ...
- Added: Nov 10, 2015
- Length: 05:26
The Arctic Circle, an assembly founded by the President of Iceland and held annually to help define the deliberations of the Arctic Council, was he...
- Added: Nov 03, 2015
- Length: 05:35
Fresh water shortages are making headlines everywhere. Issues large and small are adding up to a global water crisis which threatens all of us, ric...
- Added: Oct 26, 2015
- Length: 05:17
As a lead up to the Climate Summit in Paris scheduled for December (COP21), World Ocean Radio will highlight some encouraging signs of climate prog...
- Added: Oct 20, 2015
- Length: 05:27
The Pope's recent visit to the United States sparked much conversation and debate about the environment. Pope Francis has been very clear in his vi...
- Added: Oct 13, 2015
- Length: 05:19
In late September Royal Dutch Shell announced it has terminated oil exploration and drilling efforts in the Arctic, citing disappointing explorator...
- Added: Oct 06, 2015
- Length: 05:12
Oysters have had a history of ebb and flow, plenty and scarcity, and in New York Harbor there was a time when the waters were so polluted that oyst...
- Added: Sep 29, 2015
- Length: 05:14
The climate is changing: changing moisture, increased temperature, accelerated growth and distribution of pollen, increased allergic reactions. Sci...
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- Added: Sep 29, 2015
- Length: 05:23
- Purchases: 1
World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill recently witnessed a beautiful full moon rise from an island perch in Maine. The silent, stealthy way that it ro...
- Added: Sep 14, 2015
- Length: 05:11
The effects of leaking radiation have long raised concerns as a cause for many inexplicable natural events at sea. Since 2004 Ken Buesseler and his...
- Added: Aug 31, 2015
- Length: 05:17
A recent series of investigative stories entitled "The Outlaw Ocean" by Ian Urbina of the New York Times exposes the dark side of the deep sea, des...
- Added: Aug 24, 2015
- Length: 05:21
A San Diego County Water Authority project to construct a 6-acre desalination plant, the largest of its kind in the United States, comes at a time ...
- Added: Aug 17, 2015
- Length: 05:20
After water, the largest volume of natural material used to support global growth is sand. Demand has grown exponentially in the last two decades a...
- Added: Aug 17, 2015
- Length: 05:30
This week marks the 350th episode of World Ocean Radio, a weekly program of five-minute audio essays on a wide range of ocean issues from science a...
- Added: Jul 28, 2015
- Length: 05:30
