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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
While solar panels and electric cars are typically associated with upper-class white folk, the transition to clean energy is also a civil rights is...
- Added: Nov 09, 2017
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
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
As fisheries worldwide are being depleted by over-fishing and illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing (IUU), interest in an ever-expanding Arc...
- Added: Oct 31, 2017
- Length: 05:16
Rising temperatures are making hard outdoor jobs even harder. It is the kind of heat that will ground airplanes and melt rail lines, and health exp...
- Added: Oct 19, 2017
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 2
"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
Communicating about climate change and convincing the public that something needs to be done about it is a complicated proposition, one that report...
Bought by KWIT, KCPW Salt Lake City, WDET Detroit Public Radio, KWIT, and NPR Now
- Added: Oct 12, 2017
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 5
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
This week on World Ocean Radio: part one of a four-part series on the Arctic. In this episode, host Peter Neill examines governance, oversight, res...
- Added: Sep 26, 2017
- Length: 04:57
Natural forces unleashed an epic scale of destruction on Houston and surrounding areas of Texas. Built upon consumption, unmitigated growth, and fo...
- Added: Sep 12, 2017
- Length: 05:28
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
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
Who are the people bankrolling our political system? New Yorker writer Jane Mayer takes us behind the scenes and exposes the powerful group of indi...
- Added: Aug 24, 2017
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 5
After more than 430 episodes of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill takes this week to outline what the World Ocean Observatory does, and the ways ...
- Added: Aug 22, 2017
- Length: 05:37
Tesla is the most valuable car company in the US, recently surpassing even the auto giant, General Motors. But this high valuation is not due to th...
- Added: Aug 17, 2017
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 3
“I don’t think there’s a lot of excuses, frankly, for not doing the right thing.” Anishinaabe orator, author, economist and activist Winona LaDuke ...
Bought by Indie3 Radio and KTRL
- Added: Aug 15, 2017
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 2
For much of her nearly six-decade-long career, Dr. Jane Goodall has worked to raise awareness about the importance of protecting our planet. The Ja...
Bought by KQUA, KUHF, KWIT, WDET Detroit Public Radio, WCQS and more
- Added: Aug 09, 2017
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 6
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
One of the simplest things that individuals can do to fight climate disruption is as easy as riding a bike. Urban planners and people working on cl...
Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, KTSW 89.9, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KWIT, KHSU and more
- Added: Jul 20, 2017
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 7
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