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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
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
World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill recently returned from the Economist World Ocean Summit in Cancún, Mexico where he gathered with 400 ocean leade...
- Added: Mar 20, 2018
- Length: 05:52
The pursuit for oil continues, even as many alternatives emerge and investments are displaced. In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Nei...
- Added: Mar 13, 2018
- Length: 04:50
Ocean technologies and exploration are expanding at a remarkable pace, giving scientists and casual observers more data by which to learn more abou...
- Added: Feb 26, 2018
- Length: 05:04
Are we the last real humans? We consider this question in a conversation about art as a speculative science. Join us to ponder our uncertain future.
- Added: Feb 14, 2018
- Length: 57:16
In this issue of World Ocean Radio we ask who benefits from current solutions to ocean acidification, co2 emissions, and plastic pollution, and if ...
- Added: Dec 04, 2017
- Length: 05:13
In this week's episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill outlines some of the various applications of the oft-times controversial artificial i...
- Added: Nov 28, 2017
- Length: 05:12
Who Owns the Economic Rights to Arctic Resources?
This week on World Ocean Radio: part five of a multi-part series on the Arctic. In this episode, ...
- Added: Nov 15, 2017
- Length: 05:12
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill examines a variety of ecosystem services scenarios that look beyond current models and may h...
- Added: Oct 24, 2017
- Length: 05:11
"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
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill shares a technology first developed by a team of scientists from MIT and UC Berkeley that co...
- Added: Sep 05, 2017
- Length: 05:07
The Chicago Ship Canal is a major feat of civil engineering, and has been controversial and problematic since the beginning. Pollution from an ever...
- Added: Aug 15, 2017
- Length: 05:03
As Finland begins to outline its Arctic Council agenda for the next two years, Russian involvement and investment in the region continues to grow a...
- Added: Jul 18, 2017
- Length: 05:07
The ocean is continually and exhaustively over-exploited: over-fishing by international fisheries, sand mining for construction projects and artifi...
- Added: Jul 10, 2017
- Length: 05:02
Age old discoveries and scientific advances have long dispelled the belief that the earth is flat. Recent technological advances have moved recorde...
- Added: Jul 05, 2017
- Length: 05:24
At the United Nations Ocean Conference in New York in June, each attending delegate was presented with a new book by co-authors Dr. Gregory Stone a...
- Added: Jun 20, 2017
- Length: 05:06
Water conflict is nothing new. We have been fighting wars over the most valuable resource on the planet since thousands of years B.C. In this episo...
- Added: Jun 13, 2017
- Length: 04:43
On June 5th the United Nations General Assembly will convene for The Ocean Conference in New York City to set objectives, cultivate partnerships, a...
- Added: May 16, 2017
- Length: 05:19
In September of 2016, World Ocean Observatory began a collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution's Ocean Portal to promote the Earth Optimism S...
- Added: Mar 28, 2017
- Length: 04:42
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
This week we continue the Earth Optimism Series, a 24-episode project in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution's Ocean Portal, to celebrate ...
- Added: Mar 07, 2017
- Length: 05:16
Waste and the management of it are new challenges in recent decades. How do we dispose of toxic waste, plastic packaging, electronics, and other di...
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- Added: Feb 22, 2017
- Length: 05:12
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In this episode of World Ocean Radio we discuss two ideas--floating farms and saltwater agriculture--that are using ocean and renewable resources t...
- Added: Jan 31, 2017
- Length: 04:40
This week we continue the Earth Optimism Series, a 24-episode project in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution's Ocean Portal, to celebrate ...
- Added: Jan 25, 2017
- Length: 05:08
