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World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill recently returned home from a trip to Antarctica aboard MS Island Sky with scientists from Woods Hole and a film...
- Added: Mar 26, 2019
- Length: 04:52
Sandip discovers that sometimes a class reunion is a reminder to how we've moved on.
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- Added: Mar 25, 2019
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
The word 'indigenous' is used a lot these days, especially in terms of territorial rights to land and of invasive species of flora and fauna. In th...
- Added: Mar 05, 2019
- Length: 04:30
We wrap up our seven-part thematic overview of the ocean edge this week by discussing the cultural edge: the place alongshore where we interact wit...
- Added: Feb 19, 2019
- Length: 05:03
We have long enjoyed the ocean edge for leisurely ends: as a place to gather with family and friends to enjoy surf and sand, and to relax in the fr...
- Added: Jan 29, 2019
- Length: 04:35
In this episode of World Ocean Radio we discuss The Earth Law Center, a New York-based environmental non-profit organization that is dedicated to t...
- Added: Dec 18, 2018
- Length: 05:19
In this episode of World Ocean Radio we discuss publications, reports, and projects integral to the evolution of ocean policy and science, includin...
- Added: Nov 20, 2018
- Length: 05:17
A musical tribute to a special soon-to-be-retiring Government Elected! George Gershwin might not mind if you sing this to his 1937 "They Can't Take...
- Added: Nov 15, 2018
- Length: 03:51
On the heels of the Arctic Circle Conference in Reykjavik, Iceland in October, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill offers some additional thoughts o...
- Added: Nov 13, 2018
- Length: 05:08
A musical tribute to polling before Election Day! In the Department of Poetic Justice (and Reckoning) with lyrics for "The Great American Wrongboo...
- Added: Nov 05, 2018
- Length: 03:20
Insurers who raise health care premiums, systematically deflect accountability for increases as necessary to cover rising health care costs. Deduc...
- Added: Nov 02, 2018
- Length: 07:48
The first Arctic highway was the sea: a moving, shifting, frozen system that allowed its inhabitants to be sustained for generations. Since 1974, t...
- Added: Oct 30, 2018
- Length: 04:57
2018 was a summer of extremes: hurricanes, wildfires, drought, floods, heat, earthquakes, tsunami. It's increasingly evident that human interventio...
- Added: Oct 16, 2018
- Length: 05:19
Testimony about an accuser of a Supreme Court Nominee will take place before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Today's Sixty Second Moral inquiry as...
- Added: Sep 25, 2018
- Length: 01:12
Honoring those who have died, as we witness in the display of remembrance of Senator McCain and Aretha Franklin and, near me, a young Buddhist, inc...
- Added: Sep 01, 2018
- Length: 06:10
The national news media is mesmerized by a president who runs the White House like a reality show. Jen Rice takes a look at the weird relationship ...
- Added: Aug 24, 2018
- Length: 57:42
This episode, we ask that you put yourself in the shoes of another. What would you do if your city was not safe? Where would you go?
- Added: Aug 17, 2018
- Length: 04:19
As climate change is continually felt everywhere on the planet, how might we protect against the impacts of extreme weather, sea level rise, and mo...
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- Added: Aug 07, 2018
- Length: 05:01
- Purchases: 3
In mid-June the World Ocean Observatory co-hosted the Arctic Summer Institute in Portland, Maine in partnership with the University of Maine School...
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- Added: Jun 25, 2018
- Length: 05:17
- Purchases: 1
The CEO of Tech Mahindra said that the top 10 IT companies in India only take 6% of the engineering graduates. What happens to the other 94% he won...
- Added: Jun 05, 2018
- Length: 06:00
Humankind has for centuries been connected to the cycles of the year for sustenance from land and sea. We have built our communities and our spirit...
- Added: May 29, 2018
- Length: 05:41
For Mother's Day: we bring you a discussion by women of color writers and poets who contributed to the anthology, Revolutionary Mothering: Love on ...
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- Added: May 05, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Waste and waste management are new and increasing challenges in recent decades. How do we dispose of toxic waste, plastic packaging, electronics, a...
- Added: Apr 25, 2018
- Length: 04:55
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, part 2 of a two-part series on environmental law, host Peter Neill provides a series of examples of systems w...
- Added: Apr 17, 2018
- Length: 05:14
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill outlines laws that are intended to protect Nature and its resources--water, fresh air, food,...
- Added: Apr 09, 2018
- Length: 05:17
