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This week on World Ocean Radio we introduce listeners to a word many may have never heard before: xenobiotic--defined as a chemical substance found...

  • Added: Dec 22, 2021
  • Length: 05:10
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A postcard about wildfire from the Sierra Nevada.

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  • Added: Dec 13, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
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A postcard from Earth's largest living being: the Pando Aspen Grove near Fish Lake, Utah.

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  • Added: Dec 13, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on World Ocean Radio: new systems thinking offers alternatives to failing structures and behaviors. As food, energy and water are the thr...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2021
  • Length: 05:07
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This week on World Ocean Radio we're defining "backwash" as the movement of water for filtration, for desalination, and for clearing of debris and ...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2021
  • Length: 04:58
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HOUR ONE: "Solace Of Nature" - Wherever you live — city or country, East coast, West coast, or in between — we share common, contemplative experien...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:00
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HOUR ONE: 'Mysteries of Migration' - Millions of animals migrate every year to a destination they've never seen. How do they do it — and what can w...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:00
Caption: Scientists at the International Centre for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA) are working on halophytic (salt-loving) plants, including Salicornia bigelovii samphire (pictured). It is hope that salt-tolerant agricultural ingredients will become staples of a glo, Credit: ICBA
Sea level rise and coastal inundation are changing the agricultural landscape around the world. Fortunately, saltwater irrigation has been studied ...

  • Added: Oct 04, 2021
  • Length: 05:24
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According to the US Geological Survey, 70% of the available freshwater worldwide is used for irrigation. Industrial agriculture and modern irrigati...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2021
  • Length: 05:18
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"MacArthur 'genius award'winning landscape designer Kate Orff believes that gray infrastructure, like levees and flood gates and sea walls, can on...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2021
  • Length: 03:30
Caption: Image The Spilhaus Projection World Ocean Map. A world ocean map based on the Spilhaus projection. The Spilhaus map projection was developed in 1942 by Dr. Athelstan Spilhaus. Centered in Antarctica, the world oceans come together to form a singular, conn, Credit: Photo credit: StoryMaps ArcGIS
Visualization is a powerful tool for understanding beyond data, opening our minds and enabling transformative change through a new way of seeing. T...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2021
  • Length: 05:16
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This week on World Ocean Radio we are discussing hydrology, the "hydrospatial" perspective, and the importance of multi-dimensional analyses and vi...

  • Added: Sep 07, 2021
  • Length: 04:47
Caption: Waimea State Recreation Pier, Waimea, HI USA, Credit: Casey Horner @mischievous_penguins
This week on World Ocean Radio we're looking to the night sky, to ponder the wonder contained therein, and to explore the danger of polluting it fo...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2021
  • Length: 05:08
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This week on World Ocean Radio we are discussing the challenges of excess carbon dioxide in the air and some of the engineered solutions now being ...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2021
  • Length: 04:47
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Ocean systems are as challenged as ever, and the ocean remains essential as we plan for change. The World Ocean Observatory is a major utility for ...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2021
  • Length: 04:35
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In this episode, part thirty-seven of the multi-part BLUEprint series, we continue to discuss the take-aways from the recently published 2nd United...

  • Added: May 11, 2021
  • Length: 05:04
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This week on World Ocean Radio: part thirty-four of the multi-part BLUEprint series. This week, as part of our focus on new approaches and ideas to...

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  • Added: Apr 20, 2021
  • Length: 05:29
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on World Ocean Radio: part thirty-three of the multi-part BLUEprint series. This week, as part of our focus on new approaches and ideas t...

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  • Added: Apr 15, 2021
  • Length: 05:35
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Hydrothermal vent extraction, Credit: © Nautilus Minerals
This week on World Ocean Radio: part twenty-eight of the multi-part BLUEprint series. In this episode we talk about batteries, increasingly in dema...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2021
  • Length: 05:26
Caption: Manganese nodules on the Atlantic Ocean floor off the southeastern United States, discovered in 2019 during the Deep Sea Ventures pilot test, Credit: National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration
This week on World Ocean Radio: part twenty-seven of the multi-part BLUEprint series. In this episode we talk about a carbon-free future: one that ...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2021
  • Length: 05:39
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This week on World Ocean Radio: part twenty-six of the multi-part BLUEprint series. In this episode we introduce listeners to Molly Burhans, a youn...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2021
  • Length: :00
Caption: visualcapitalist.com/countries-by-share-of-earths-surface, Credit: Virtual Capitalist: Visualizing Countries By Share of Earth's Surface
This week on World Ocean Radio: part twenty-five of the multi-part BLUEprint series. In this episode: the importance of ocean literacy and ocean ed...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2021
  • Length: 05:15
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This week on World Ocean Radio: part twenty-one of the multi-part BLUEprint series. In this episode we introduce listeners to the concept of ocean ...

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  • Added: Jan 19, 2021
  • Length: 05:19
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on World Ocean Radio: part twelve of the multi-part BLUEprint series. As we embark on our collective quest for a sustainable future, we a...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2020
  • Length: 05:30
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This week on World Ocean Radio: part eleven of the multi-part BLUEprint series. As we launch headlong into a new phase in the series we'll begin to...

  • Added: Oct 26, 2020
  • Length: 04:15