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This week we're examining religious beliefs around the world and religious commitment to the ocean and to the protection of natural resources, and ...
- Added: Dec 14, 2022
- Length: 05:18
I grew and sold California buckthorn for several years. Early on I sold it wholesale to other nurseries, but I also sold it at Farmers Markets in C...
- Added: Dec 13, 2022
- Length: 04:18
In this episode we provide three examples of initiatives, proposals and financial solutions that could change the shape of our climate future, incl...
- Added: Dec 08, 2022
- Length: 05:11
Leslie Newton Goodding had a busy career. It was when he worked for the U. S. Department of Agriculture that he collected the type specimen for the...
- Added: Dec 07, 2022
- Length: 04:01
It was the American botanist Soreno Watson, that named the onion collected in Tanner’s Canyon of the Huachuca Mountains to honor Sara Plummer Lemmo...
- Added: Dec 07, 2022
- Length: 04:16
- Added: Dec 06, 2022
- Length: 04:01
World-renowned soil biologist Dr. Elaine Ingham and her Soil Food Web Approach [https://www.soilfoodweb.com/] has successfully been implemented to...
- Added: Dec 05, 2022
- Length: 58:00
The 27th Conference of the Parties (COP 27) closed recently in Egypt. Reactions to outcomes of the climate change conference have been mixed, and t...
- Added: Nov 30, 2022
- Length: 05:15
This week on World Ocean Radio we're discussing COP27, the annual Conference of the Parties, that took place this year in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. W...
- Added: Nov 23, 2022
- Length: 05:19
This week on World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reflects on a recent trip to Egypt, a dry desert land in the heart of Africa, the civilizations of ...
- Added: Nov 18, 2022
- Length: 05:15
I thought you’d like to see the fraction of the Galiuro Mountains (Galuros!)
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 05:00
It’s fun to have favorite plants to look for on excursions into the hills. Looking back at photos and my notes, we have been checking on this parti...
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 04:23
What a fun discovery in the desert east of Douglas, Arizona. There is just something about these large spinescent shrubs in the buckthorn family, R...
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 04:22
The genus Heuchera is found in the saxifrage family, Saxifracaceae, with 80 other genera that includes the genus Saxifraga and its 400 species. Yikes!
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 04:16
My morning ditties are not nearly as amazing as the song of a curved bill thrasher, but they help me begin the day.
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 04:23
There are a dozen species of Melampodium and I wonder which one Linnaeus was looking at when he honored Melampus with the genus name. And I wonder...
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 04:28
It's true that every year I jump and shout about the fall blooming plants in the Aster family (Asteraceae) and I proclaim that there should be a fe...
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 04:19
Fall gets me excited and fall color is a crazy combination of blooming plants and plants with leaves changing color as they prepare to go dormant. ...
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 05:03
The botanical name for jackass clover is Wislizenia refracta and for clammy weed it’s Polanisia dodecandra. I translate those very cool names in th...
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 04:00
The seventh chapter of the series, Carbon Valley.
Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 50:05
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Nov 15, 2022
- Length: 05:00
Our guest Dr. Scott Coffin [https://scottcoff.in/] has been studying plastic since 2014. He is a toxicologist and Research Scientist at California ...
- Added: Nov 14, 2022
- Length: 58:00
How do we govern the ocean? This week on World Ocean Radio we introduce a concept that advocates for a centralized Ministry for the Ocean, a voice ...
- Added: Nov 09, 2022
- Length: 05:26
To give you an idea of the celestial traffic in our neighborhood, on a recent clear night, using our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona, my C...
Bought by Simply Beautiful, KGLP, WTIP, KICI Iowa City, Raven Radio and more
- Added: Nov 06, 2022
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 9
This week on World Ocean Radio we're discussing the harsh realities of 21st century storms in the face of climate change: hurricanes more powerful,...
- Added: Nov 03, 2022
- Length: 04:59