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How do we go about feeding a planet that’s hotter, drier, and more crowded than ever? From a remote-controlled organic farm in Shanghai to famine-s...

Bought by WCNY, WJCT, KQED, KUOW, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jul 11, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 11
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How do we go about feeding a planet that’s hotter, drier, and more crowded than ever? From a remote-controlled organic farm in Shanghai to famine-s...

  • Added: Jul 11, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
Caption: Wolf Schram for Unsplash
How often do we think about what lies below the surface of the land, below the sea floor? This week on World Ocean Radio we're thinking about water...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2019
  • Length: 05:33
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In this episode of World Ocean Radio we look back at the most egregious actions and decisions taken by individuals, corporations and governments th...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2019
  • Length: 05:25
Caption: Bath Iron Works is a subsidiary of General Dynamics and Maine's largest defense contractor and a major employer. BIW builds Zumwalt destroyers for the U.S. Navy at its shipyard on the Kennebec River in Bath, Maine
This week on World Ocean Radio we're talking about solutions to the climate challenge by highlighting some modern examples of and possibilities for...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio and KVNF


  • Added: Jun 11, 2019
  • Length: 05:38
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Desalination plant in Hamburg, Germany, Credit: World Atlas | worldatlas.com/articles/can-we-make-drinking-water-out-of-ocean-water.html
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
Caption: A Moment of Science
Declining Biodiversity--Is Earth Dying?

  • Added: Apr 24, 2019
  • Length: 02:00

  • Added: Apr 24, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
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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
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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
Caption: A Moment of Science
What Can Birds Tell Us about Wildlife Trafficking?

  • Added: Mar 27, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
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Just ten years ago, an entire state running on 100% renewable electricity seemed fanciful. But this dreamy vision became reality when, with the bac...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
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Just ten years ago, an entire state running on 100% renewable electricity seemed fanciful. But this dreamy vision became reality when, with the bac...

Bought by WJCT, WCQS, KVMR, and NPR Now


  • Added: Feb 13, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 4
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This week we begin to present the ocean edge in thematic ways with The Working Edge, outlining the various social structures, industries, exchange,...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2019
  • Length: 05:12

  • Added: Dec 14, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
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From fires and floods to hurricanes and hot temperatures, 2018 put climate on the front page in ways it hadn’t been before. Yet amidst the disrupti...

Bought by WJCT, KZYX, WXXI Rochester, WKAR, NPR Now and more


  • Added: Dec 06, 2018
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 11
Caption: Citizen Scientists Hilde Fålun Strøm and Sunniva Sorby , Credit: Hearts in the Ice
This week on World Ocean Radio we introduce listeners to two women who are planning to embark on an unsupported exploration in the Arctic: 270 days...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 04, 2018
  • Length: 04:46
  • Purchases: 1
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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

  • Added: Nov 09, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
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Ships have long been used for exploration and trade, as well as for colonial expansion and conflicts at sea. We are using technological achievement...

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Oct 22, 2018
  • Length: 10:44
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Oct 02, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
Caption: A Moment of Science
A Brief History of "High-Fidelity" Sound

  • Added: Oct 01, 2018
  • Length: 02:00

  • Added: Oct 01, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
Caption: Larry Goldzband, Executive Director of BCDC, the Bay Conservation and Development Commission, Credit: Sarah Gonzalez
With the melting of Antarctica’s ice and the Greenland ice sheet, projections for the oceans to rise dramatically and quickly are increasing. Watch...

Bought by WJCT, KZYX, NPR Now, KWIT, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more


  • Added: Aug 25, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 9

  • Added: Aug 08, 2018
  • Length: 02:00