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This week's episode of World Ocean Radio kicks off a multi-part series on the key principles of Ocean Literacy. The next eight episodes will provid...
- Added: Mar 04, 2020
- Length: 04:14
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
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
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
There has never been a better time to become a citizen scientist: curious individuals interested in collecting data to build toward solutions, expa...
- Added: Oct 16, 2019
- Length: 04:49
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
