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This week on World Ocean Radio we highlight the innovative work of the Sasagawa Peace Foundation in Tokyo, Japan, an organization using philanthrop...
- Added: Jan 21, 2020
- Length: 05:48
Moken is a Thai word meaning sea people, people of water, sea nomads or sea gypsies. The Moken are a group of Austronesian people of an archipelago...
- Added: Jan 14, 2020
- Length: 05:32
In the middle ages, alchemists for a time believed they could turn base metal into gold. This early endeavor may be the origin story for modern inv...
- Added: Jan 07, 2020
- Length: 04:31
This week on World Ocean Radio we tell a tale of two cities--Newtok, Alaska (pop. 380) and Jakarta, Indonesia (pop. 30 mil)--6,000 miles apart yet ...
- Added: Dec 03, 2019
- Length: 05:22
How many ways do we hear the sound of water? In this episode of World Ocean Radio we explore water, the most essential element on earth, and the wa...
- Added: Nov 26, 2019
- Length: 04:45
Fish markets are the noisy, colorful, exiting, authentic and lively centers of any coastal city, the place where mongers and customers, tourists an...
- Added: Nov 19, 2019
- Length: 05:23
In this episode of World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reflects on the coming of winter and the collection of the last of the harvest to sustain us-...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Nov 12, 2019
- Length: 04:41
- Purchases: 1
A scientific paper published in May 2019 states that eight urgent, simultaneous actions are needed to head off potential ecological disaster in the...
Bought by WRIR
- Added: Nov 05, 2019
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
This week on World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reflects on the magic of water and the ways it defines our urban spaces. This episode focuses on To...
Bought by WOUB
- Added: Oct 30, 2019
- Length: 04:35
- Purchases: 1
Increasingly, people around the world are experiencing a fresh water crisis. More than 17 countries are under high water stress, and one fourth of ...
- Added: Oct 22, 2019
- Length: 05:25
How do we describe the relationship between human society and nature? This week on World Ocean Radio we discuss what it means to be a stakeholder, ...
Bought by WOUB
- Added: Oct 08, 2019
- Length: 05:27
- Purchases: 1
This week on World Ocean Radio we conclude our four-part series devoted to "The Outlaw Ocean", a new book by award-winning New York Times investiga...
- Added: Oct 01, 2019
- Length: 04:39
This week on World Ocean Radio we offer part three of a four-part series devoted to "The Outlaw Ocean", a new book by award-winning New York Times ...
- Added: Sep 24, 2019
- Length: 04:56
The outlaw ocean, a space apart, hidden from view, a place of rampant criminality and exploitation. This week on World Ocean Radio we offer part on...
- Added: Sep 19, 2019
- Length: 05:32
The outlaw ocean, a space apart, hidden from view, a place of rampant criminality and exploitation. This week on World Ocean Radio we offer part on...
- Added: Sep 10, 2019
- Length: 05:07
In the United States, planning and reparation for coastal flooding and damage has been administered under a National Flood Insurance Program that s...
- Added: Sep 03, 2019
- Length: 04:43
In this episode of World Ocean Radio we call upon the Canadian government to amend and expand their June 2019 legislative action--the Wild Animal a...
- Added: Aug 27, 2019
- Length: 05:12
This week on World Ocean Radio we introduce listeners to Project Drawdown, a collective of scholars and innovators assembled to address the challen...
- Added: Aug 20, 2019
- Length: 05:32
Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity's annual demands on Nature exceed the capacity for Earth's ecosystems to regenerate those resource...
- Added: Aug 13, 2019
- Length: 05:14
A trophic cascade is an ecological phenomenon triggered by the addition or removal of top predators, involving changes in populations of both preda...
- Added: Aug 13, 2019
- Length: 04:33
"Mother Earth has the following rights: To life, to the diversity of life, to water, to clean air, to equilibrium, to restoration, and to pollution...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Jul 23, 2019
- Length: 04:40
- Purchases: 1
With the Hearts in the Ice expedition set to begin one month from now, World Ocean Radio is revisiting a special episode dedicated to the upcoming ...
- Added: Jul 16, 2019
- Length: 04:28
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
This week on World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill highlights the dark side of what happens at sea in the context of a forthcoming book by Pulitzer Pr...
- Added: Jul 02, 2019
- Length: 05:34
Trust and estate expert explain the importance of the US-Japan Estate, Inheritance and Gift Tax Treaty and how it works.
- Added: Jun 25, 2019
- Length: 08:31
