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A recent video showing a torrent of plastic rushing down a river in Guatemala prompted World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill to respond this week with...
- Added: Apr 03, 2018
- Length: 05:23
Ocean technologies and exploration are expanding at a remarkable pace, giving scientists and casual observers more data by which to learn more abou...
- Added: Feb 26, 2018
- Length: 05:04
It was in 1970, under President Nixon, that the Environmental Protection Agency was founded. While the Agency enjoyed tremendous bipartisan support...
Bought by KPIP-LP, WDET Detroit Public Radio, KUNM, KWIT, KBBI Alaska and more
- Added: Feb 01, 2018
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 6
What if we were to accept water--in all its forms and functions--as the system around which we organize and calculate value as a contribution to pr...
- Added: Jan 30, 2018
- Length: 05:09
When Michael Mann and colleagues published the infamous “hockey stick papers” in 1999, Mann soon found himself under attack by climate skeptics and...
Bought by KPIP-LP, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KWIT, KCMJ Community Radio, KMUD and more
- Added: Jan 25, 2018
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 8
World-renowned primatologist and conservationist Jane Goodall talks about her life’s work, the link between deforestation and climate change and wh...
Bought by KQUA, KPIP-LP, RadioFreePalmer, KWIT, NPR Now and more
- Added: Jan 09, 2018
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 6
What is the framework by which to outline our values, structures, and behaviors regarding the ocean, fresh water, and all the benefits of nature re...
- Added: Jan 09, 2018
- Length: 05:07
This week on World Ocean Radio we talk about springs, those fresh water seeps that serve as an integral part of the earth's water system. We introd...
Bought by KSFR
- Added: Dec 12, 2017
- Length: 05:32
- Purchases: 1
In this issue of World Ocean Radio we ask who benefits from current solutions to ocean acidification, co2 emissions, and plastic pollution, and if ...
- Added: Dec 04, 2017
- Length: 05:13
In this week's episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill outlines some of the various applications of the oft-times controversial artificial i...
- Added: Nov 28, 2017
- Length: 05:12
As the Science Guy, television’s Bill Nye inspired a generation of children to love science as much as he does. But these days, he’s speaking to a ...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio, WLPR , NPR Now, KCMJ Community Radio, WDET Detroit Public Radio and more
- Added: Nov 21, 2017
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 8
This week on World Ocean Radio: part one of a four-part series on the Arctic. In this episode, host Peter Neill examines governance, oversight, res...
- Added: Sep 26, 2017
- Length: 04:57
From: Out of Bounds
Award-winning naturalist, poet & author discusses her most recent book "The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us"
- Added: Sep 13, 2017
- Length: 29:00
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill shares a technology first developed by a team of scientists from MIT and UC Berkeley that co...
- Added: Sep 05, 2017
- Length: 05:07
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Texas Flood Linked with Extreme Weather Patterns Long Predicted by Climate...
- Added: Aug 30, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
After more than 430 episodes of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill takes this week to outline what the World Ocean Observatory does, and the ways ...
- Added: Aug 22, 2017
- Length: 05:37
For much of her nearly six-decade-long career, Dr. Jane Goodall has worked to raise awareness about the importance of protecting our planet. The Ja...
Bought by KQUA, KUHF, KWIT, WDET Detroit Public Radio, WCQS and more
- Added: Aug 09, 2017
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 6
Since the creation and ratification of the United Nations Convention of the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), many international experts have debated how be...
- Added: Aug 08, 2017
- Length: 04:33
The scientific consensus is that human activity is cooking the planet. Yet, many people persist in believing that climate change is a hoax. Vilifyi...
Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, WLPR , KWIT, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Jul 28, 2017
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 4
As Finland begins to outline its Arctic Council agenda for the next two years, Russian involvement and investment in the region continues to grow a...
- Added: Jul 18, 2017
- Length: 05:07
The ocean is continually and exhaustively over-exploited: over-fishing by international fisheries, sand mining for construction projects and artifi...
- Added: Jul 10, 2017
- Length: 05:02
As Buffalo Springfield sang in 1967, “There’s something happening here…” But today’s youth revolution is happening far beyond the Sunset Strip. The...
Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, KWIT, KUHF, KWMR, and NPR Now
- Added: Jun 29, 2017
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 5
At the United Nations Ocean Conference in New York in June, each attending delegate was presented with a new book by co-authors Dr. Gregory Stone a...
- Added: Jun 20, 2017
- Length: 05:06
On June 5th the United Nations General Assembly will convene for The Ocean Conference in New York City to set objectives, cultivate partnerships, a...
- Added: May 16, 2017
- Length: 05:19
Arctic ice is melting at record levels, revealing an ocean open and vulnerable to enterprise and extraction. In this episode of World Ocean Radio, ...
- Added: May 01, 2017
- Length: 05:07
