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Pollution is an excess of any given thing: waste, pesticide, acid, carbon—-any one thing in extreme which tips the scales, compromises stability, s...
- Added: Mar 10, 2014
- Length: 05:08
Vast amounts of resources are being consumed due to the increasing demand for electrical products and devices. This has led to mining of the ocean ...
- Added: Mar 03, 2014
- Length: 05:10
Bloomberg Philanthropies recently announced its Vibrant Oceans Initiative, a $53 million, 5-year effort to boost fish populations in Brazil, the Ph...
- Added: Feb 25, 2014
- Length: 05:34
The world ocean is a sick sea. The symptoms are no longer deniable as we become familiar with stories of reported spills, leaks, dying reefs, warmi...
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- Added: Feb 17, 2014
- Length: 05:20
- Purchases: 1
Global positioning systems and other means of gathering, computing, and visualizing data have led to increased documentation, new tools for plannin...
- Added: Feb 10, 2014
- Length: 05:16
The world's first open cut deep water mining operation in pursuit of silver, gold, and copper on the ocean floor has been granted license by the Ne...
- Added: Feb 10, 2014
- Length: 05:22
The ocean has served as a means of exchange for all manner of cargo: oil, chemicals, waste, arms, manufactured goods, raw materials, and human bein...
- Added: Jan 20, 2014
- Length: 05:06
In this episode of World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill will discuss a number of small, local projects which apply management and sustainability conc...
- Added: Dec 16, 2013
- Length: 04:11
A recent legal case involving a man from Kiribati claiming refugee status from the impacts of climate has captured world media attention. In this e...
- Added: Dec 11, 2013
- Length: 05:33
Ownership of cultural discoveries such as shipwrecks has long been debated by governments, historical institutions, private business and salvers an...
- Added: Nov 19, 2013
- Length: 05:18
The fresh water cycle is ever-changing and in increasing demand due to growing populations, changing weather patterns, industrialization and the pu...
- Added: Nov 13, 2013
- Length: 04:55
World Ocean Radio often touches upon "values," principles which guide our social, political, financial and communal interests. Value shifts such as...
- Added: Nov 04, 2013
- Length: 04:59
The "silk road" of Marco Polo's 13th century journey to the East is being revived, as is its ocean parallel, the "maritime silk road" which is fast...
- Added: Oct 28, 2013
- Length: 05:11
"Globalization" is a term embroidered in meaning and often misunderstood. Is globalization a modern phenomenon or a function of history? In this ep...
- Added: Oct 14, 2013
- Length: 04:55
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will assert that there is nothing to be gained from our short-term avoidance and denial of o...
- Added: Sep 30, 2013
- Length: 05:10
Today we live with the weather as never before. Access to weather information is all around us. The news is continuously driven not just by more s...
- Added: Sep 09, 2013
- Length: 05:05
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will share his practice of carrying blue marbles with him wherever he goes, gifting them to ...
- Added: Aug 19, 2013
- Length: 05:06
In this episode of World Ocean Radio we'll share approaches, discussions and consensus from the Ocean Exploration 2020 Forum on a number of ocean s...
- Added: Jul 29, 2013
- Length: 05:15
Reduce, reuse, recycle. The words "reduce" and "recycle" are common in our modern society, but what does it mean to reuse? In this episode of World...
- Added: Jun 24, 2013
- Length: 05:12
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will discuss Blue Mind 3 and the conference topic of empathy. He will describe the work of o...
- Added: Jun 17, 2013
- Length: 05:29
On June 8th we celebrate World Ocean Day to recognize our relationship with the ocean through global connection. In this episode of World Ocean Rad...
- Added: Jun 17, 2013
- Length: 05:18
In the last edition of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill suggested reciprocity as a value on which to build our response to the environmental deg...
- Added: Jun 03, 2013
- Length: 05:13
There is no single fix to deal with the many challenges facing the world ocean. The ocean community has identified various strategies such as mitig...
- Added: May 28, 2013
- Length: 05:13
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will ask, "Who is the top predator here?" and, "If certain endangered species do in fact con...
- Added: May 20, 2013
- Length: 04:57
Wind is of particular relevance to the ocean, as evidenced by the number of near and offshore wind turbine proposals currently projected and in mot...
- Added: May 13, 2013
- Length: 05:37
