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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
Some of the best howling of the season at Yellowstone National Park
Bought by Wyoming Public Radio, Radio Newark, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Mar 01, 2014
- Length: 02:12
- Purchases: 4
Adapting to Climate Change explores the ambitious plans that engineers, scientists, government officials, business leaders, NGOs, and community gro...
Bought by CI Dolphin Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KRCB 104.9, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KTSW 89.9 and more
- Added: Feb 20, 2014
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 39
The Union of Concerned Scientists reports that herbicide-resistant weeds have reached epidemic proportions, infesting 61 million acres and growing....
- Added: Feb 13, 2014
- Length: 28:00
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
When Klaas Martens transitioned to organic farming, his neighbors at the local coffee shop bet how long it would be before he went broke. But Marte...
- Added: Jan 23, 2014
- Length: 28:00
Can organic farming feed the world? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview with New York State...
- Added: Jan 17, 2014
- Length: 28:00
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will introduce World Ocean Journal, a new bi-annual e-magazine on ocean culture, issues and ...
- Added: Jan 15, 2014
- Length: 04:55
Prof. Doug Wiens describes his explorations of Antarctica. Wiens uses seismographs to study the physics behind ice movement and examine questions a...
- Added: Dec 20, 2013
- Length: 12:26
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
This week's broadcast is the 250th edition of World Ocean Radio. We wish to thank all our listeners, broadcasters and partners in the United States...
- Added: Dec 03, 2013
- Length: 05:05
The most serious, debilitating circumstance affecting the ocean today may be acidification, the changing pH or acid balance in the water column wit...
- Added: Nov 25, 2013
- Length: 05:55
Why are so few people talking about the risky operation starting at the ruined Fukushima nuclear plant?
Bought by KDNK
- Added: Nov 17, 2013
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 1
A discussion of the economic, social, and political consequences of environmental degradation on populations and governmental systems. Special gues...
- Added: Nov 14, 2013
- Length: 23:53
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
During this program, Christopher White talks about and reads from his book 'The Melting World: A Journey Across America’s Vanishing Glaciers.'
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WCWP, KSJD, and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Oct 22, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 5
Dr. Barbara Sherwood Lollar of the University of Toronto was recently named by Canadian Geographic as someone making a significant difference in Ca...
- Added: Oct 22, 2013
- Length: 18:09
"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
To what degree are we born a blank slate, and how much are we a result of our influence by our environment? Consensus: Nature or nurture is the wr...
- Added: Sep 27, 2013
- Length: 07:20
You’re about to hear a story about the bear whisperer of Lyme New Hampshire, Ben Kilham, and the abandoned black bear cubs he has rescued, rehabili...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Sep 25, 2013
- Length: 27:53
- Purchases: 1
In the past decade, dams have been targeted as outdated, inefficient energy providers with serious impacts for the immediate and downstream environ...
- Added: Sep 23, 2013
- Length: 05:15
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
Soil. We treat it like dirt, yet it holds vibrant communities of microscopic organisms that affect public health. Join Food Sleuth Radio host and ...
- Added: Sep 06, 2013
- Length: 28:00