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It has been nearly twenty years since the Ocean Literacy Principles and Framework were first adopted by classroom educators to promote the ocean as...
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- Added: Sep 06, 2024
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What used to be a wondrous event every year in India, has this year taken on a darker hue. Sandip Roy looks to the skies and considers this seasons...
- Added: Aug 05, 2024
- Length: 06:00
Polar ice caps are melting. Huge swathes of the world are sweltering under record high temperatures. But how do you talk about climate change to ch...
- Added: Jun 24, 2024
- Length: 06:00
As the Indian heat descends on Kolkata, Sandip considers how our perceptions about the rituals of summer have changed.
- Added: Apr 30, 2024
- Length: 06:00
This holiday season on World Ocean Radio we return with a special reading of "Christmas at Sea", an evocative poem by Robert Louis Stevenson writte...
- Added: Dec 20, 2023
- Length: 04:03
India’s famous “toilet man,” Dr. Bindeswar Pathak, died last month at the age of 80. But he was far more than just an inventor and business man. Sa...
- Added: Sep 19, 2023
- Length: 06:00
The White House state dinner for Indian prime minister Narendra Modi included for the first time millets as the main grain. And that caused quite a...
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- Added: Jul 03, 2023
- Length: 06:00
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Kolkata’s streets continue to clog with cars. The fate of an already established, cleaner transit option, teeters in the balance.
- Added: Apr 18, 2023
- Length: 06:00
Kolkata was the first city in India to have streetcars and the only city to still have them. And they carry within them a rich history of the city ...
- Added: Apr 11, 2023
- Length: 06:00
The short documentary Oscar win for The Elephant Whisperers is being widely celebrated in India because it's a first for India. But what will it me...
- Added: Mar 21, 2023
- Length: 06:00
This week we continue the multi-part RESCUE series with a highlight of UNCLOS, the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, a major example...
- Added: Mar 08, 2023
- Length: 05:04
The 'Akiapōlā'au is one of Hawaii's rare and endangered birds, living exclusively on the Big Island.
- Added: Feb 08, 2023
- Length: 01:30
This week on World Ocean Radio we discuss the disruption and potential sabotage of the Nord Stream Line, the underwater natural gas pipelines in th...
- Added: Oct 12, 2022
- Length: 04:57
The drums of Durga Puja, the biggest festival of the Kolkata calendar finally stopped beating last week.
But some are asking about such a big celeb...
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- Added: Oct 11, 2022
- Length: 06:00
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Cheetahs were declared extinct in India in 1952. Now they are being brought back from Africa.
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- Added: Sep 27, 2022
- Length: 06:00
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A ban on single use plastic went into effect in India last month. But food and beverage companies like Coca Cola and Pepsico are saying they cannot...
- Added: Aug 08, 2022
- Length: 06:00
Dr Sulochana Gadgil started studying the Indian monsoon when she was at Harvard in the 1960s. She's been tracking it back in India since 1971. And ...
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- Added: Jul 19, 2022
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On world Environmental Day, Sandip rediscovers an old transit system that has potential for all of us.
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- Added: Jun 06, 2022
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Writer Amitov Ghosh’s new book explores how the past informs our future, but can we learn from it?
- Added: Dec 17, 2021
- Length: 06:00
Suffering from pandemic blur Sandip takes solace in the familiar sounds of the seasons… and frogs.
- Added: Jun 28, 2021
- Length: 06:00
Every May 29th is Mt. Everest Day.
- Added: Jun 15, 2021
- Length: 06:00
As San Francisco’s heat wave hits 100º Sandip Roy recalls how to battle heat waves in his native Kolkata.
- Added: Sep 07, 2020
- Length: 06:00
The Sundarbans in Bengal, India have become a speeded up version of global climate change.
- Added: Jun 09, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Amitav Ghosh’s newest novel Gun Island is a story about both two of his great themes - migration and climate.
- Added: Sep 10, 2019
- Length: 06:00
As crazy weather makes headlines globally, Sandip Roy reflects on the monsoons of his past.
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- Added: Aug 05, 2019
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