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This week on World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill gets us thinking about seawater: as a resource for fresh drinking water, as a means for robust rene...
- Added: May 14, 2019
- Length: 05:12
Global temperatures would be soaring even higher were it not for a powerful heat-trapping ally: oceans. From regulating the temperature of the plan...
- Added: May 09, 2019
- Length: 58:59
Solar energy has emerged worldwide as a serious and viable alternative to fossil fuels, and can now be found in many places around the world. In th...
- Added: Apr 23, 2019
- Length: 04:52
There has never been a better time to be a citizen scientist--those individuals interested in the collection of data toward solutions, the expansio...
- Added: Apr 19, 2019
- Length: 04:49
With the Green New Deal in the national spotlight, a vigorous debate is happening: how ambitiously and broadly must the U.S. act on climate? Are is...
Bought by WJCT, WCQS, NPR Now, MPR News Stations, KHSQ and more
- Added: Apr 10, 2019
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 9
With the Green New Deal in the national spotlight, a vigorous debate is happening: how ambitiously and broadly must the U.S. act on climate? Are is...
- Added: Apr 10, 2019
- Length: 58:59
Food webs describe who eats whom in an ecological community. In the aquatic food web, humans feed down the food chain, consuming lesser and lesser ...
- Added: Apr 09, 2019
- Length: 05:27
Invention and management of energy systems have led to increased efficiency and less reliance on unsustainable supplies of fossil fuels. In this ep...
- Added: Apr 02, 2019
- Length: 05:02
The last five years have been the hottest on record globally. But this past winter, plunging temperatures, snowstorms and torrential rains througho...
- Added: Mar 19, 2019
- Length: 58:56
This week marks the 500th episode of World Ocean Radio! For more than 10 years, World Ocean Radio has been engaging in dialogue about ocean issues,...
- Added: Mar 19, 2019
- Length: 05:17
Some think that “green growth” would be unlikely to stop global warming, and would only worsen numerous other global environmental crises. While a ...
- Added: Mar 12, 2019
- Length: 59:09
We begin this segment of Dig Deep with our liberal commentator Aaron Brown and conservative Chuck Marohn on the topic of socialism.
- Added: Mar 08, 2019
- Length: 16:42
The last five years have been the hottest on record globally. But this past winter, plunging temperatures, snowstorms and torrential rains througho...
- Added: Mar 05, 2019
- Length: 58:56
- Purchases: 11
Antarctica, terra nullius--nobody's land, has long been a place apart, once explored only by intrepid and resourceful individuals willing to risk f...
- Added: Feb 26, 2019
- Length: 05:16
Many of us find it daunting to talk with our neighbors, colleagues and family members about climate change. But climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe ...
Bought by WJCT, WCQS, KBBI Alaska, KVMR, MPR News Stations and more
- Added: Feb 07, 2019
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 8
How do you teach ethics to engineering students? Guests Dr. Beccy Hambright and Richard Burgess talk about their experience tackling that question...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Jan 21, 2019
- Length: 48:02
- Purchases: 1
How do we protect ourselves and our properties from storm surge and sea level rise? Last week we discussed the hard edge strategy of dikes, dams, g...
- Added: Jan 15, 2019
- Length: 05:28
We all know about the environmental and physical effects of climate change. But what about its impact on our mental health? Therapists report that ...
- Added: Dec 12, 2018
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 6
Interviews with college students and medical professionals on the rise of e-cigs
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Dec 10, 2018
- Length: 03:04
- Purchases: 1
The Catalog of Life is an online database of the world's known species of animals, plants, fungi and micro-organisms. It holds the essential inform...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Nov 27, 2018
- Length: 05:07
- Purchases: 1
Kirk is part of the 10th District of Texas, which cuts into Austin. Kirk is voting for his representatives to heed scientists' warnings and take cl...
- Added: Nov 02, 2018
- Length: 03:42
Isn't the scientific method gender-neutral?
Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, KRJF-lp, and WYSO
- Added: Oct 08, 2018
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 5
Former Vice-President Al Gore, famed primatologist Jane Goodall, and TV scientist-turned-activist Bill Nye are three climate veterans who have lost...
Bought by KUSU and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Oct 04, 2018
- Length: 40:55
- Purchases: 2
"The ocean is largely unexplored."
So states the seventh and final Ocean Literacy principle, a series of fundamental concepts to help us better und...
- Added: Oct 02, 2018
- Length: 05:10
"The ocean and humans are inextricably interconnected."
So states the sixth Ocean Literacy principle, a series of fundamental concepts to help us b...
- Added: Sep 24, 2018
- Length: 05:10