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Pollution is an excess of any given thing: waste, pesticide, acid, carbon—-any one thing in extreme which tips the scales, compromises stability, s...
- Added: Mar 10, 2014
- Length: 05:08
Advertisers love to talk about the art of engineering. But this week’s guests on Sea Change Radio truly are fusing their high-tech research with ar...
Bought by KVSC and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Mar 05, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
While California is experiencing one of it’s driest seasons, the east and south are having one of the coldest and wettest. Is this climate change, ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 04, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Vast amounts of resources are being consumed due to the increasing demand for electrical products and devices. This has led to mining of the ocean ...
- Added: Mar 03, 2014
- Length: 05:10
Bloomberg Philanthropies recently announced its Vibrant Oceans Initiative, a $53 million, 5-year effort to boost fish populations in Brazil, the Ph...
- Added: Feb 25, 2014
- Length: 05:34
We’re told that genetically engineered Golden Rice is the answer to third world Vitamin A-related blindness, but is it? Join Food Sleuth Radio host...
- Added: Feb 21, 2014
- Length: 28:00
A couple of decades who could have imagined that a gust of wind wafting across a Wyoming plain could power an air conditioner as far off as Souther...
- Added: Feb 19, 2014
- Length: 30:00
Global positioning systems and other means of gathering, computing, and visualizing data have led to increased documentation, new tools for plannin...
- Added: Feb 10, 2014
- Length: 05:16
Climate conditions are rapidly changing, opening sea routes to major development, shipping, and underwater cable systems. In this episode of World ...
- Added: Feb 10, 2014
- Length: 05:16
2013 was the driest year on record in California, and the state’s snowpack is at 12% of what it should be. Considering that this state alone houses...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Feb 04, 2014
- Length: 29:50
- Purchases: 1
Bitcoin-accepted-hereIf you've heard about Bitcoin on the evening news or seen a headline about it, you might have been left with the impression th...
- Added: Jan 22, 2014
- Length: 29:30
If you watched last weekend’s 60 Minutes piece on the so called “Cleantech Crash,” you might have taken a moment to check the channel and make sure...
- Added: Jan 08, 2014
- Length: 29:45
A topic that we covered more than a year ago, but was just as relevant in 2013 is fire, more specifically wildfires. When we aired our show, The Bu...
Bought by KHNS
- Added: Dec 19, 2013
- Length: 08:37
- Purchases: 1
Cruelty free products abound in our 21st Century market place, from cosmetics to fake fur. But can you imagine a cruelty free filet mignon? It soun...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Dec 18, 2013
- Length: 29:59
- Purchases: 1
Can you think of two everyday materials with a worse environmental rep than Styrofoam and plastic bottles? From production through disposal, these ...
- Added: Dec 18, 2013
- Length: 28:59
In this episode of World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill will discuss a number of small, local projects which apply management and sustainability conc...
- Added: Dec 16, 2013
- Length: 04:11
Do you think beer is good? If you do, you’re not alone. Beer is the most widely consumed alcoholic beverage worldwide, and one of the earliest ferm...
Bought by KVSC and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Dec 03, 2013
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 2
This week's broadcast is the 250th edition of World Ocean Radio. We wish to thank all our listeners, broadcasters and partners in the United States...
- Added: Dec 03, 2013
- Length: 05:05
The most serious, debilitating circumstance affecting the ocean today may be acidification, the changing pH or acid balance in the water column wit...
- Added: Nov 25, 2013
- Length: 05:55
The fresh water cycle is ever-changing and in increasing demand due to growing populations, changing weather patterns, industrialization and the pu...
- Added: Nov 13, 2013
- Length: 04:55
World Ocean Radio often touches upon "values," principles which guide our social, political, financial and communal interests. Value shifts such as...
- Added: Nov 04, 2013
- Length: 04:59
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Contributor Meg Cramer tells the story of the first electrically lit town in America -- Wabash, Indiana.
Bought by WOUB, Radio Newark, and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Nov 04, 2013
- Length: 06:21
- Purchases: 3
The "silk road" of Marco Polo's 13th century journey to the East is being revived, as is its ocean parallel, the "maritime silk road" which is fast...
- Added: Oct 28, 2013
- Length: 05:11
Today’s show starts off in Zambia. Worldwide, an estimated 1.5 billion people do not have access to electricity. In Zambia more than 80% of the pop...
- Added: Oct 22, 2013
- Length: 29:50
"Globalization" is a term embroidered in meaning and often misunderstood. Is globalization a modern phenomenon or a function of history? In this ep...
- Added: Oct 14, 2013
- Length: 04:55
