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Understanding the Ocean in the 21st Century
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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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
  • Length: 05:14
  • Purchases: 1
Could we put solar panels on cars?
From: Possibly
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Student engineers, and one major car manufacturer are already trying the idea. But there are limits to how effective these panels can be.

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  • Added: Sep 03, 2024
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
Eustacy: A Word for the Ocean
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Eustacy is a word used to describe worldwide changes of sea level. This is a new word for us: even though it seems we live in a eustatic world. We'...

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  • Added: Aug 29, 2024
  • Length: 05:10
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How are doctors responding to climate change?
From: Possibly
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More medical schools are training their students on climate change. This week on Possibly we're taking a look at how your visit to the doctor might...

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  • Added: Aug 26, 2024
  • Length: 04:00
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Can a doctor give you a prescription for solar panels?
From: Possibly
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A new program at the Boston Medical Center says it prescribes solar panels to patients. But we wondered, what does that really mean?

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  • Added: Aug 19, 2024
  • Length: 04:00
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UN Action: A Call for Ocean Communication
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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This week on World Ocean Radio: synopsis of a recent report by the UN Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission entitled "Call to All Voices of th...

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  • Added: Aug 14, 2024
  • Length: 05:43
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What happened when young people sued Hawai'i’s Department of Transportation?
From: Possibly
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The two sides just reached a settlement that will have a major impact on the state's carbon emissions.

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  • Added: Aug 12, 2024
  • Length: 04:00
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Ocean Music
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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This week we're taking listeners to the shore, to be reminded of the importance of silence, solitude and renewal in our lives, and of the healing p...

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  • Added: Aug 07, 2024
  • Length: 05:10
  • Purchases: 1
The Rain Remembers
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: An afternoon monsoon in Kolkata., Credit: Sandip Roy
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
Should we use hydropanels to pull clean water out of thin air?
From: Possibly
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A new technology promises to suck water vapor out of the air and turn it into water that we can drink. How do they work and are these worthy invest...

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  • Added: Aug 05, 2024
  • Length: 03:22
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Spilhaus World Ocean Map
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: The Spilhaus Projection World Ocean Map based on the Spilhaus projection, developed in 1942 by Dr. Athelstan Spilhaus. Centered in Antarctica, the world oceans come together to form a singular, connected, contiguous body of water. , Credit: StoryMaps ArcGIS
Visualization is a powerful tool for understanding beyond data, opening our minds and enabling transformative change through a new way of seeing. T...

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  • Added: Aug 02, 2024
  • Length: 05:16
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Could we use gym equipment to make electricity?
From: Possibly
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Brown University's gym recently installed machines that turn kinetic energy into electricity. Could these machines put a dent in our energy needs?

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  • Added: Jul 29, 2024
  • Length: 03:18
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Bright Ideas Toward a Sustainable Future
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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This week: two technological innovations—both bright ideas, that could have huge impacts for useful, sustainable change for the future. The first i...

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  • Added: Jul 24, 2024
  • Length: 04:51
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What can organisms that changed the world teach us about climate change?
From: Possibly
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A new book by Possibly’s founder Stephen Porder titled Elemental: How Five Elements Changed Earth’s Past and Will Shape Our Future, explores the ra...

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  • Added: Jul 22, 2024
  • Length: 04:46
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The Internal Price on Nature
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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As we review the state of climate change challenge and response, it becomes clear we are not succeeding. Is it possible to craft a new economic sys...

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  • Added: Jul 17, 2024
  • Length: 05:07
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Are sewers the best way to deal with stormwater?
From: Possibly
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Paved surfaces like roads, sidewalks, and driveways send stormwater into our sewers, but engineering solutions that filter water through the ground...

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  • Added: Jul 15, 2024
  • Length: 03:56
  • Purchases: 4
Plastic: Cycle and Recycle
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Plastic is ubiquitous. It is everywhere in our lives, in our air, bodies, and water, yet we do not possess the cycle or recycle to continue product...

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  • Added: Jul 10, 2024
  • Length: 05:04
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How did the Narragansett Bay get so much cleaner?
From: Possibly
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During heavy rain, Rhode Island's sewers used to get overwhelmed and dump untreated sewage into the Bay. But thanks to a project to increase the ca...

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  • Added: Jul 08, 2024
  • Length: 03:40
  • Purchases: 1
Is climate change funny?
From: Possibly
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At Possibly we think a lot about how to make complicated climate science easy to understand. And we’re not the only ones! Some comedians are playin...

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  • Added: Jul 01, 2024
  • Length: 04:00
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An Ocean Literacy Declaration
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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World Ocean Observatory is ever in search of new systems that convert knowledge into action, especially as they relate to ocean education and commu...

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  • Added: Jun 27, 2024
  • Length: 05:18
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When Fairyland Lost It's Magic
From: KALW
Caption: The cover for the book "When Fairyland Lost It's Magic," by Bijal Vachharajani, Credit: Photo courtesy of the author
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
My Meeting with the Alewives
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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This week on World Ocean Radio we are hailing the alewife: a species of herring found in the west Atlantic where they thrive along shore and season...

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  • Added: Jun 19, 2024
  • Length: 05:09
  • Purchases: 1
Despite the name, flushable wipes are not flushable
From: Possibly
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Despite what the packaging says, flushable wipes should never be flushed down the toilet! They can cause blockages in the sewer system and create a...

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  • Added: Jun 17, 2024
  • Length: 03:16
  • Purchases: 4
Are we close to 100% renewable energy?
From: Possibly
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For decades now, people have been installing solar panels, wind turbines and more to transition our energy to renewable sources – but we wondered, ...

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  • Added: Jun 17, 2024
  • Length: 04:00
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What is World Ocean Day Meant to Do?
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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On June 8th each year we come together as a global community to celebrate World Ocean Day, a date set aside to recognize our relationship with the ...

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  • Added: Jun 07, 2024
  • Length: 04:43
  • Purchases: 1