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Mycologist Terry Henkel discusses the diversity of fungi, loosely called mushrooms, and their importance to ecosystem health and the Klamath bioreg...
Bought by WNED Buffalo, Radio Newark, and KFOI Radio
- Added: Jul 15, 2016
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 3
An audio postcard highlighting the wide variety of whales, porpoises and dolphins that inhabit the waters along northern California and southern Or...
Bought by KLCC, WNED Buffalo, Radio Newark, and KFOI Radio
- Added: Jul 14, 2016
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 4
W2O Director Peter Neill recently spent time in the Galãpagos Islands and is back to share his observations from a long-anticipated trip to the UNE...
- Added: Mar 31, 2016
- Length: 05:14
In this second of four episodes dedicated to outlining the complexities contained in the United Nations World Ocean Assessment, host Peter Neill ex...
- Added: Mar 06, 2016
- Length: 05:15
In January of 2016 the UN General Assembly accepted a 1,752 page report entitled "The First Global Integrated Marine Assessment: World Ocean Assess...
- Added: Mar 01, 2016
- Length: 05:21
The US Navy's SEALAB initiative is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, with now three pioneering aquatic living experiments under their bel...
- Added: Jan 19, 2016
- Length: 05:04
World fisheries are in crisis, with many species pushed to the edge of extinction. The current system is a recipe for disaster: demand is up; exter...
- Added: Jan 11, 2016
- Length: 05:25
In a continuing conversation about the future of the Arctic, host Peter Neill shares his concerns about the disconnect between a strong commitment ...
- Added: Nov 10, 2015
- Length: 05:26
Fresh water shortages are making headlines everywhere. Issues large and small are adding up to a global water crisis which threatens all of us, ric...
- Added: Oct 26, 2015
- Length: 05:17
As a lead up to the Climate Summit in Paris scheduled for December (COP21), World Ocean Radio will highlight some encouraging signs of climate prog...
- Added: Oct 20, 2015
- Length: 05:27
Oysters have had a history of ebb and flow, plenty and scarcity, and in New York Harbor there was a time when the waters were so polluted that oyst...
- Added: Sep 29, 2015
- Length: 05:14
The climate is changing: changing moisture, increased temperature, accelerated growth and distribution of pollen, increased allergic reactions. Sci...
Bought by KVNF
- Added: Sep 29, 2015
- Length: 05:23
- Purchases: 1
The effects of leaking radiation have long raised concerns as a cause for many inexplicable natural events at sea. Since 2004 Ken Buesseler and his...
- Added: Aug 31, 2015
- Length: 05:17
A San Diego County Water Authority project to construct a 6-acre desalination plant, the largest of its kind in the United States, comes at a time ...
- Added: Aug 17, 2015
- Length: 05:20
After water, the largest volume of natural material used to support global growth is sand. Demand has grown exponentially in the last two decades a...
- Added: Aug 17, 2015
- Length: 05:30
The global water crisis and the prospects for future water resources is forcing adjustments for how we measure the water that is used, how it is va...
- Added: Jul 06, 2015
- Length: 05:19
The global water crisis and the prospects for future water resources is forcing adjustments for how we measure the water that is used, how it is va...
- Added: Jun 29, 2015
- Length: 05:41
The global water crisis and the prospects for future water resources is forcing adjustments for how we measure the water that is used, how it is va...
- Added: Jun 22, 2015
- Length: 05:09
What is the possibility of a post-capitalism economic model to support the values and behaviors for a new era filled with alternative technologies,...
- Added: Jun 08, 2015
- Length: 05:24
In this episode of World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill continues a discussion about the most important issue facing the world today: the global wate...
- Added: Mar 02, 2015
- Length: 05:32
In this episode of World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill discusses the most important issue facing the world today: the global water crisis. Is it pos...
- Added: Feb 24, 2015
- Length: 05:13
They rock and roll them. We're talking about those boulders we all see in the woods. Geologists call them "erratics."
- Added: Dec 17, 2014
- Length: 03:53
Toxic chemicals released into watersheds and waterways remain a persistent problem despite the sounding of alarms, which for decades have railed ag...
- Added: Dec 15, 2014
- Length: 05:27
At a recent conference and planning workshop sponsored by the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, participants took part in a clim...
- Added: Dec 09, 2014
- Length: 05:27
- Added: Nov 18, 2014
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
