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We’ve celebrated Earth Day in the United States for more than 50 years. Today, we’re taking a look at what made the first Earth Day in 1970 such a ...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2024
  • Length: 04:00
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Last week we learned that individuals’ home water consumption doesn’t really make a dent in the water supply, and the benefit of personal water con...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2024
  • Length: 03:37
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Saving water might not seem all that important in a humid climate like Rhode Island. But actually, there are plenty of reasons why water conservati...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2024
  • Length: 03:26
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Today, we’re taking a look at how we dispose of our food. Next time you’re scraping a plate, should that food go into compost, your sink disposal, ...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Apr 22, 2024
  • Length: 03:32
  • Purchases: 1
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In business, as in life, there is a balance sheet, a statement of assets, profit and loss, income and expense, showing whether our accounts are in ...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2024
  • Length: 05:07
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Seafood is a world staple, under siege by increased consumption and over-fishing. Aquaculture is the necessary alternative, yet is a polarizing iss...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2024
  • Length: 05:18
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"We are not blind to the overall problem, and if we were in doubt, recent climate-explained events, near and far, should open our eyes more widely....

  • Added: Mar 04, 2024
  • Length: 05:13
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In this episode and the next, World Ocean Radio reports on the status quo, business-as-usual, tunnel vision conclusions at COP28 in Dubai, hosted b...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2024
  • Length: 04:51
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A November visit to Gloucester Massachusetts for an Ocean Literary Conference (NEOSEC 2023) afforded W2O staff an opportunity to take a field trip ...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2024
  • Length: 05:20
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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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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
Caption: The path retraced by the Chandrayaan-3 Rover on Aug. 27, 2023 as viewed by the Navigation Camera onboard the rover., Credit: Image from the ‘X’ account of @isro (Indian Space Research Organisation)
India became the first nation in the world to pull off a soft landing on the moon's south pole.

  • Added: Aug 29, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
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We are nearing the end of the RESCUE series. This week, in its 30th edition, we're talking about water: the well-spring of world ocean health and t...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2023
  • Length: 04:57
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This week we continue the multi-part RESCUE series with a proposed solution to advance successful connection and communication within and with thos...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2023
  • Length: 10:25
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This week the multi-part RESCUE series continues with an examination of familiar products derived from the ocean that we use to support our ways of...

  • Added: May 03, 2023
  • Length: 05:04
Caption: Photo by Tim Foster on Unsplash, Credit: @timberfoster
This week we continue the multi-part RESCUE series with the topic of seafood consumption. While more than 3 billion people worldwide rely on wild-c...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2023
  • Length: 05:05
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This week we continue the multi-part RESCUE series with a highlight of UNCLOS, the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, a major example...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2023
  • Length: 05:04
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This week we continue the multi-part RESCUE series with observations about the climate future and our relationship to facts and truth, the spread o...

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  • Added: Feb 01, 2023
  • Length: 05:20
  • Purchases: 1
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This week we continue the multi-part RESCUE series with a call for better communications of ocean science: translation, packaging, distribution and...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2023
  • Length: 05:21
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This week on World Ocean Radio we're discussing the harsh realities of 21st century storms in the face of climate change: hurricanes more powerful,...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2022
  • Length: 04:59
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World Ocean Radio is available for syndicated use at no cost by college and community radio stations worldwide. Contact us: director@thew2o.net 2...

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  • Added: Oct 19, 2022
  • Length: 05:32
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Nord Stream Pipelines, Credit: Source: WikiMedia Commons CC-By-SA 4.0: https://www.berria.eus/lizentzia commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nord_Stream_pipelines_on_map.svg
This week on World Ocean Radio we discuss the disruption and potential sabotage of the Nord Stream Line, the underwater natural gas pipelines in th...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2022
  • Length: 04:57
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These days, I can log on to my phone and pull up a file that’s stored thousands of miles away. It’s pretty awesome. But does access to all of this ...

Bought by KMXT, WRFA-LP, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Oct 05, 2022
  • Length: 04:01
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Chewie wears his mask. Be like Chewie., Credit: Sandip Roy
…the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. — From ...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: Bottle of Lies book cover
Katherine Eban's book "Bottle of Lies" exposes the criminal dealings of some of India pharma's drug producers

  • Added: Feb 03, 2020
  • Length: 06:00