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This summer we are revisiting some of our favorite World Ocean episodes that highlight optimism in ocean news, science and advocacy. In this episod...
- Added: Jun 20, 2022
- Length: 05:03
Today’s grocery store wheat comes from a variety of grains that were crossbred in the 1960’s to produce a higher yielding and lower cost crop.
Th...
- Added: Aug 12, 2021
- Length: 19:48
Industrialized monoculture tends to treat insects as pests to be exterminated. What can we do to make them partners? For starters, listen. In this ...
- Added: Jul 15, 2021
- Length: 20:51
Earth Day is the largest secular observance in the world, but it wouldn't have been possible if people didn't speak up for what is right. 40 years ...
- Added: Apr 26, 2021
- Length: 02:30
This month, when the maple sap is flowing, we have three different stories about the importance of trees and our interaction with them. We’ll meet ...
- Added: Mar 12, 2021
- Length: 19:53
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
In the era of sailing vessels, Hog Island became well known to mariners because of the infamous Hog Island Shoals which ran parallel to the island.
- Added: Apr 24, 2012
- Length: 01:32
- Added: Apr 23, 2012
- Length: 01:30
- Added: Apr 23, 2012
- Length: 01:38
Kenneth Honeycutt tells his wife Gaye about witnessing the New London School Explosion of 1937.
- Added: Apr 06, 2012
- Length: 02:03
- Purchases: 3
Today on Don't Cha know we continue our coverage of The Big Muddy River Rendezvous that took place in Winona at Prairie Island campground in the mi...
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- Added: Dec 08, 2011
- Length: 15:23
- Purchases: 1
On this episode of "Don't Cha Know" we venture back to Prairie Island Campground in Winona, Minnesota, and partake in a lesson on fur trading. The ...
- Added: Dec 08, 2011
- Length: 18:01
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill discusses two such recent presentations of Red Sea and Arabian-Persian Gulf history.
- Added: Oct 05, 2011
- Length: 05:12
The Battle of Sugar Point on Leech Lake: northern MN historian, Cecelia McKeig, talks about the causes of the last 19th century armed conflict betw...
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- Added: Oct 11, 2010
- Length: 08:03
- Purchases: 2
Not long ago, a kindergartener snapped a photo of a rare bird...
- Added: Jun 26, 2007
- Length: 01:32
It's no news to anyone that hurricanes can be devastating. Luckily, hurricane forecasting has improved a lot over the years. We owe much of that im...
- Added: Jun 26, 2007
- Length: 01:32
It started in 1872 on the barren plains of Nebraska...It's Arbor Day!
- Added: Mar 28, 2007
- Length: 01:32
Ever wondered if your city is a "Tree City?"
- Added: Mar 28, 2007
- Length: 01:32
The bald eagle is back! Back on California's Channel Islands, that is, after facing near extinction forty years ago.
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
In its manufacturing heyday, England was infamous for its skies dark with coal smoke belching from mills and factories.
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
They sighted him wandering through the Bavarian Alps, and the German media named him "Petzi" -- the first brown bear known to roam through super-po...
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
Who's the longest-lived human on record? Jeanne Calment of France -- 122 years!
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
The place is America?s Wetland -- millions of acres along Louisiana?s Gulf Coast that teem with life
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
