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Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
A Registered Maine Guide I know searched for a wounded deer - wounded but not felled- he still seeking to do good for evil - as it is perceived by ...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2024
  • Length: 04:50
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On this episode of the Polley Music Library Show, we talked about the new book "Overtone Singing," a comprehensive tome that addresses the physics ...

  • Added: May 06, 2023
  • Length: 28:29
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Ruben Östlund’s satire on the ruling class takes us on a luxury cruise headed for disaster.

  • Added: Apr 12, 2023
  • Length: 03:33
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In the U.S., Santa keeps tabs on who’s been naughty or nice, but there isn’t much follow through on the naughty list. In much of Europe, however, S...

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  • Added: Dec 23, 2021
  • Length: 27:27
  • Purchases: 2
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A postcard from São Paulo, Brazil.

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  • Added: Dec 13, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Nanshan Cultural Tourist Zone in Sanya, China , Credit: Denny Ryanto @runninghead
In this episode, part thirty-eight of the multi-part BLUEprint series, we examine some statistics that show steps China is taking to confront the c...

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 05:38
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In this episode of World Ocean Radio, part three of the five-part Slavery: Heritage and Identity series, we introduce listeners to Diving with a Pu...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2020
  • Length: 05:25
Caption: UNESCO Slave Route: Resistance, Liberty, Heritage
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, part two of the four-part Slavery: Heritage and Identity series, we discuss trans-Atlantic slavery in the con...

  • Added: Jul 14, 2020
  • Length: 05:10
Caption: Undersea cables carry telecommunications and Internet data globally, Credit: TeleGeography
"The ocean and humans are inextricably interconnected." So states the sixth Ocean Literacy principle, a series of fundamental concepts to help us b...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2020
  • Length: 04:45
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This week we bring you an abbreviated special edition of World Ocean Radio in response to the global Covid-19 pandemic. In this edition we'll reite...

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  • Added: Mar 30, 2020
  • Length: 02:02
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Black Sand Beach in Reynisfjara, Iceland, Credit: Wikimedia Commons
In this episode of World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reflects on a landscape of special importance to him on the coast of Iceland, and the ways th...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2020
  • Length: 05:52
Caption: Youth Climate Strikes (aka Fridays for Future, Youth for Climate) is an international activist movement born of one teenager's staged protests each Friday outside of Sweden's parliament building in August 2018. Greta Thunberg began striking for climate an, Credit: Wikimedia Commons
The climate is in crisis, and the next generation is committed to and has been successful in raising awareness, demanding political action, seeking...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2020
  • Length: 05:31
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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
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The World Ocean Observatory is partnering with Main Street Bucksport this year for the 4th annual International Maritime Film Festival, a celebrati...

  • Added: May 21, 2019
  • Length: 05:04
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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
Caption: Thames Barrier, U.K.
This week with "Hard Edges" we kick off a 7-part series dedicated to the ocean edge, exploring what takes place there, from the real to the symboli...

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  • Added: Jan 08, 2019
  • Length: 05:13
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Biodiversity in the Maldives , Credit: Husian, Flikr
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
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This week on World Ocean Radio we celebrate marine protected areas and discuss their importance to biodiversity, ecosystem resilience, and the miti...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2018
  • Length: 04:30
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In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill examines a variety of ecosystem services scenarios that look beyond current models and may h...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2017
  • Length: 05:11
Caption: His profession was listed as  "farmer's son". They never saw their family again., Credit: Susan Cook
The US Senate bill to limit immigration by educational status ignores that opportunity is exactly what oppressive regimes deny. Opportunity -as ev...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2017
  • Length: 05:59
Caption: Mangroves Near Waitangi, Credit: Gordon and Julia Gardner
We are living in a time of great environmental, social, and political change, and our outdated ways of living and governing are failing. The 21st c...

  • Added: May 10, 2017
  • Length: 05:52
Caption: Gaza seaport, Credit: REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
Seaports have long been places of commerce and trade: hubs connecting land and sea in an import/export exchange that contributes to regional, natio...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2017
  • Length: 05:09
Caption: A WORLD OF BLUE: Preserving the Ocean, Safeguarding the Planet, and Ensuring Human Well-Being in the Context of the 2030 Agenda. February 13 & 14, 2017. United Nations General Assembly, New York City
On February 13th and 14th Peter Neill, director of the World Ocean Observatory, will be in New York City to moderate a United Nations Inter-Parliam...

  • Added: Feb 07, 2017
  • Length: 04:54
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This week we continue the Earth Optimism Series, a 24-episode project in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution's Ocean Portal to address oce...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2016
  • Length: 05:42
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After water, the largest volume of natural material used to support global growth is sand. Demand for sand has grown exponentially in the last two ...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2016
  • Length: 05:08