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In Part II of a 2-part series on the Global Water Contract, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill explains the Committee's progressive recommendations...
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 05:21
In 1998, a private commission was assembled to create a framework for worldwide understanding of fresh water as an inalienable human right. In this...
- Added: Oct 06, 2014
- Length: 05:04
Can we hack our way toward solutions for climate change? While governments dither, Congress negates and the world warms, how about deploying privat...
Bought by KTSW 89.9 and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Oct 05, 2014
- Length: 58:37
- Purchases: 2
Clean air is as valuable as clean water: both are essential requirements for human health and survival. Statistics and data on emissions from burni...
- Added: Sep 22, 2014
- Length: 05:10
In 1996, the high level intergovernmental Arctic Council was formed to promote cooperation and interaction among the Arctic states. In this episode...
- Added: Sep 15, 2014
- Length: 05:23
From: Aengus Anderson
In the wake of a catastrophic fire, researchers use Arizona's Chiricahua Mountains to look centuries into the future of climate change and ask "wha...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio and KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA
- Added: Aug 25, 2014
- Length: 06:55
- Purchases: 2
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill uses lyrics composed by a 20th century musical legend to reflect upon the challenges we face...
- Added: Aug 25, 2014
- Length: 04:39
The Living Well Show presents Rebel WITH a Cause - Dr. Tyrone Hayes is a Harvard trained biologist that has courageously stuck to his research find...
- Added: Aug 11, 2014
- Length: 28:35
In this fourth and final episode of a multi-part series on the final report released by the Global Ocean Commission, From Decline to Recovery, A Re...
- Added: Jul 28, 2014
- Length: 05:12
In Part One of a multi-part series, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill outlines and explains the Global Ocean Commission Final Report, beginning w...
- Added: Jul 07, 2014
- Length: 05:42
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will highlight some of the major announcements made during the Our Ocean 2014 Conference hos...
- Added: Jul 07, 2014
- Length: 05:56
In this episode of World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill will discuss how pervasive plastics have become by describing microbeads, particulates found ...
- Added: Jun 23, 2014
- Length: 05:12
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill describes what a transformed Arctic might look like, and suggests that we should be encourag...
- Added: Jun 16, 2014
- Length: 05:27
In May 1975, Popular Mechanics published an article called “Cities In The Sky”, about plans for space colonies by 1995. Flash forward forty years a...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Researchers have presented a paper on the concept of floating nuclear power stations, the results of which are outlined in a recent article in The ...
- Added: May 27, 2014
- Length: 05:22
The Ocean Exchange, founded in 2010 and based in the United States, offers a platform for identifying, accelerating and promoting the solutions and...
- Added: May 19, 2014
- Length: 05:23
We may be at the edge of our climate moment. Public opinion appears to be turning toward a fuller understanding of the impacts of climate change an...
- Added: May 12, 2014
- Length: 10:44
Fish supplies are being rapidly depleted due to overfishing, especially in the deep ocean outside of national jurisdiction. The EU has developed ac...
- Added: Apr 28, 2014
- Length: 05:20
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will describe the objectives of the Global Partnership for the Oceans and outline the points...
- Added: Apr 21, 2014
- Length: 05:08
The Living Well Show presents:
A two part interview with Dr. Sandra Steingraber, award winning author of Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal...
- Added: Apr 21, 2014
- Length: 28:33
April is Parkinson’s Awareness Month. Did you know that farmers who use pesticides are at greater risk for developing Parkinson's Disease (PD)? Or ...
- Added: Apr 10, 2014
- Length: 28:00
Over the past few years, demand for seaweed has grown beyond its status as a long-lived local, seasonal harvest. Today it is used for fertilizer, h...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 05:18
Of all the types of waste in the marine ecosystem, plastic is perhaps the best known: it shows up on beaches, in the stomachs of shore birds, fish ...
- Added: Mar 24, 2014
- Length: 05:27
In December 2012, a two-ton instrument built to detect cosmic rays ascended into the Antarctic sky, carried by a balloon the size of a football fie...
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 14:00
Benny McLean has been working in the Florida citrus industry ever since he was 10 years old. Today he is production manager for Uncle Matt’s Organ...
- Added: Mar 06, 2014
- Length: 28:00
