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On the heels of the Arctic Circle Conference in Reykjavik, Iceland in October, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill offers some additional thoughts o...
- Added: Nov 13, 2018
- Length: 05:08
The first Arctic highway was the sea: a moving, shifting, frozen system that allowed its inhabitants to be sustained for generations. Since 1974, t...
- Added: Oct 30, 2018
- Length: 04:57
2018 was a summer of extremes: hurricanes, wildfires, drought, floods, heat, earthquakes, tsunami. It's increasingly evident that human interventio...
- Added: Oct 16, 2018
- Length: 05:19
As climate change is continually felt everywhere on the planet, how might we protect against the impacts of extreme weather, sea level rise, and mo...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WMPG, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Aug 07, 2018
- Length: 05:01
- Purchases: 3
In mid-June the World Ocean Observatory co-hosted the Arctic Summer Institute in Portland, Maine in partnership with the University of Maine School...
Bought by Prairie Public
- Added: Jun 25, 2018
- Length: 05:17
- Purchases: 1
Humankind has for centuries been connected to the cycles of the year for sustenance from land and sea. We have built our communities and our spirit...
- Added: May 29, 2018
- Length: 05:41
Waste and waste management are new and increasing challenges in recent decades. How do we dispose of toxic waste, plastic packaging, electronics, a...
- Added: Apr 25, 2018
- Length: 04:55
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, part 2 of a two-part series on environmental law, host Peter Neill provides a series of examples of systems w...
- Added: Apr 17, 2018
- Length: 05:14
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill outlines laws that are intended to protect Nature and its resources--water, fresh air, food,...
- Added: Apr 09, 2018
- Length: 05:17
Health and Welfare of the Indigenous People of the Arctic.
In this episode, host Peter Neill examines the rights of the indigenous peoples of the A...
- Added: Nov 08, 2017
- Length: 09:44
"Soul of the Sea in the Age of the Algorithm" is a new book by Dr. Gregory Stone and Nishan Degnarain, produced in association with World Ocean Obs...
- Added: Oct 18, 2017
- Length: 04:37
This week on World Ocean Radio: part three of a four-part series on the Arctic. In this episode, host Peter Neill discusses the melting of sea ice,...
- Added: Oct 10, 2017
- Length: 05:14
This week on World Ocean Radio: part two of a four-part series on the Arctic. In this episode, host Peter Neill examines the Finland chairmanship o...
- Added: Oct 03, 2017
- Length: 05:23
I’ve been asking for about 9 years now why Red Pines that have thrived for hundreds of years would die. Not that I knew 9 years ago they would die....
- Added: Sep 02, 2017
- Length: 03:45
After a recent three-week sailing voyage in the North Atlantic, host Peter Neill returns to World Ocean Radio to share observations from being in a...
- Added: Aug 29, 2017
- Length: 05:15
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
The highest production of greenhouse gases in the US comes from the West Jefferson, Alabama Miller Electric Plant. The parent company- The Southern...
- Added: Jul 21, 2017
- Length: 02:55
As a follow up to a World Ocean Radio episode from mid-May, we offer an overview of the Ocean Conference in New York last week which sought to reac...
- Added: Jun 23, 2017
- Length: 04:46
On June 8th we celebrate World Ocean Day, a day to recognize our relationship with the ocean through global connection and stewardship. In this epi...
- Added: Jun 05, 2017
- Length: 04:36
In the face of an all-out attack by the Trump administration on environmental regulations and values, how do we create a new strategy for Nature? I...
- Added: Apr 11, 2017
- Length: 05:12
Since the U.S. election in November, the Trump Administration has taken bold action to change the policies, regulations, and environmental protecti...
- Added: Apr 04, 2017
- Length: 04:43
The Sixty Second Moral Inquiry asks questions about right and wrong in sixty seconds about pressing matters of the day. Because the Maine legislatu...
- Added: Mar 27, 2017
- Length: 01:15
Maine's Legislature will vote on Open-Pit Mining soon but whose testimony about environmental contamination will be believed and who will speak th...
- Added: Mar 24, 2017
- Length: 06:34
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, written during a blizzard raging off the Maine coast, host Peter Neill reflects on the vulnerability of the o...
- Added: Mar 20, 2017
- Length: 05:21
Insurance touches every aspect of our lives, protecting us from financial loss. As climate change is continually felt everywhere on the planet, how...
- Added: Mar 14, 2017
- Length: 05:01
