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Devastating weather and water events abound worldwide. Rain, flooding, strong winds, extreme high tides, coastal erosion and inundation have caused...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2024
  • Length: 05:25
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We talk with Cory Doctorow about his new novel The Lost Cause, “a solarpunk science fiction novel of hope amidst the climate emergency.” It imagine...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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This week we are celebrating our 700th episode of World Ocean Radio--5-minute reflections featured as podcast and interstitial radio syndicate for ...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2024
  • Length: 04:45

  • Added: Jan 03, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
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HOUR ONE: "Out Of The Anxiety Box" - It's 7 a.m. You're not even out of bed and you're already worrying. So let's talk about it: How anxious we are...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:59
Caption: Iron, Coal, Wood, Credit: Seth Shostak
The first coal-fired stoves changed domestic life, and that changed society. We take you back to that that era, and to millennia prior when iron wa...

Bought by Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, KZUM, KBBI Alaska, WRGY, CHSR-FM 97.9 and more


  • Added: Dec 25, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 14
Caption: Ocean's Genome, Credit: Seth Shostak
After helping to sequence the human genome more than twenty years ago, biochemist Craig Venter seemed to recede from the public eye. But he hadn’t ...

Bought by WVTF, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, KBBI Alaska, WMUU-LP, KZUM and more


  • Added: Dec 18, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 14
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In part three of this 3-part series, we continue to explore the recent publication related to marine biomimetics and the deep sea, identifying the ...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2023
  • Length: 05:14
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On this episode of Audacious, meet a young DJ who stands up against bullying, a 14-year-old who cleans up litter, and a child who made a memorial s...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2023
  • Length: 50:00
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We talk with Simon Worrall and Heather Dune-Macadam about the fascinating and tragic story of a young Jewish artist in Nazi-occupied Paris. Their b...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2023
  • Length: 59:04
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In these three episodes of World Ocean Radio we are exploring a recent publication entitled “A Forgotten Element in the Blue Economy: Marine Biomim...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2023
  • Length: 05:07
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We spend the hour with Corban Addison talking about his spell-binding legal thriller, WASTELANDS: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial.

  • Added: Dec 08, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
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Need some pumpkin pi to go with that leftover turkey? Jess highlights her favorite reasons to be thankful for science in this season of gratitude.

  • Added: Nov 28, 2023
  • Length: 18:00

  • Added: Nov 22, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
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HOUR ONE: "Whose Land Is It?" - Owning land is a big part of the American dream. But there’s a problem with that: That land is often stolen. So who...

  • Added: Nov 10, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:01
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Over the next few editions of World Ocean Radio we will be discussing a recent publication entitled “A Forgotten Element in the Blue Economy: Marin...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2023
  • Length: 05:05
Caption: Night Flight, Credit: Seth Shostak
Owls are both the most accessible and elusive of birds. Every child can recognize one, but you’ll be lucky to spot an owl in a tree, even if you’re...

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9, WRGY, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, KBBI Alaska, KZUM and more


  • Added: Nov 06, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 13
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This week on World Ocean Radio are two forward-looking government-proposed initiatives that offer opportunities for progress in climate policy, inv...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2023
  • Length: 05:18
Caption: Like Lightning, Credit: Seth Shostak
Every second, lightning strikes 50 to 100 times somewhere. It can wreak havoc by starting wildfires and sometimes killing people. But lightning als...

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WRGY, KZUM and more


  • Added: Oct 23, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
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We are aware of the key role played by insurance, more so as we face increasing events of extreme weather destruction. Government agencies are sign...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2023
  • Length: 05:16
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Yurok fisherman and tribal leader Sammy Gensaw and environmental scientist-turned-activist Craig Tucker share the epic story of how Indigenous lead...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
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This week on World Ocean Radio we're talking about the megaphonics of ocean communications. How do we as communicators break through? How do we cre...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2023
  • Length: 05:15
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This week on World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill talks about the power of storytelling and the vast catalog of tales of adventure, sailors, song, ba...

  • Added: Oct 05, 2023
  • Length: 05:21
Caption: United States Supreme Court Building, Credit: Wikimedia Commons
We revisit two sites of indigenous resistance we've covered in the past: First we talk to Rebecca Nagle about the Supreme Court ruling upholding th...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Oct 04, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Science fictions are widely held dangerous beliefs that are not supported by science. Jess explores a few of these in anticipation of the continued...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2023
  • Length: 29:00