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Ocean Literacy: Ocean Shapes the Features of Earth
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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"The ocean and life in the ocean shape the features of Earth." So states the second principle of the ocean literacy curriculum, a series of fundame...

  • Added: Aug 28, 2018
  • Length: 05:04
Deep Sea Mining Update, part one
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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There has long been public opposition to deep sea mining, a technology that extracts resources from the ocean floor. In this episode of World Ocean...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2018
  • Length: 05:23
2021-04-04 Does Science Over-reach?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Are there questions that science is powerless to answer?

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  • Added: Jul 23, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 8
2018-07-22 Conversations with Climate Storytellers
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: L-R: Andrew Revkin, Elizabeth Kolbert, David Roberts
Science and environmental reporter Andrew Revkin has been writing about climate change since the 1980s, including 21 years for The New York Times. ...

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  • Added: Jul 19, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 7
Atlas of Ocean Wealth
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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In this week's episode of World Ocean Radio we discuss publications, reports, and projects that are integral to the evolution of ocean policy and s...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2018
  • Length: 05:38
Carbon Offsets for a Sustainable Future
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: UCapture funds carbon offset and ocean clean-up projects, at no cost to you when you shop online. Learn more at ucapture.com/w2o
Carbon offsets offer ways for retailers and consumers to help meet the challenge of climate impacts and environmental consequences, and can be an e...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2018
  • Length: 05:11
2018-06-24 Rounding up the Facts on GMOs
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Are GMOs the answer to our planet’s food shortage? Or are they jeopardizing our health, crops and climate by creating a destructive cycle of Roundu...

Bought by WJCT, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, WDET Detroit Public Radio, KWIT, Georgia Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Jun 19, 2018
  • Length: 58:54
  • Purchases: 10
2018-06-10: Al Gore and Bill Nye
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Looking for a movie that takes climate science to the masses? In the first part of this week’s episode, former Vice President Al Gore joins Climate...

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  • Added: Jun 07, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 10
Losing the Nobel Prize: A Conversation with Brian Keating
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Dr. Brian Keating
Astrophysicist Brian Keating discusses his book, "Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science's Highest Honor."

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  • Added: May 27, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 1
2018-04-29 The Population Bomb, 50 Years Later: A Conversation with Paul Ehrlich
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: Paul R. Ehrlich, President, Center for Conservation Biology, Bing Professor of Population Studies, Stanford University
In 1968, the best-seller “The Population Bomb” (written by Paul and Anne Ehrlich, but credited solely to Paul) warned of the perils of overpopulati...

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  • Added: Apr 24, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 9
2018-04-22 Engineering Climate Solutions
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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In an emergency, we’re told to “break the glass” and grab the fire extinguisher. If we’re in the midst of a climate emergency, is there a firehose ...

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  • Added: Apr 19, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 9
An Epic Flow of Plastic: What Are We Going To Do About It?
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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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
SXSW EDU Live: Podcasting and Designing Lessons
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
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Recorded in the middle of South by Southwest (SXSW) EDU 2018, this episode features educator Rachel and engineer Pius. They discuss their immediate...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2018
  • Length: 25:09
Sail Drones: An Emerging Ocean Technology
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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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
Math Anxiety
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
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Anxiety in engineering education sometimes comes from doing math. What does math anxiety feel like? What are its causes and effects? How do you dea...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2018
  • Length: 27:40
2018-02-11 Climate On Your Plate
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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What should climate-conscious people do to eat most sustainably? How people approach their diet is deeply personal and can be extremely controversi...

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  • Added: Feb 08, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 7
2018-02-04 EPA Then and Now
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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It was in 1970, under President Nixon, that the Environmental Protection Agency was founded. While the Agency enjoyed tremendous bipartisan support...

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  • Added: Feb 01, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 6
Water As Capital: The Wealth of Life
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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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
2018-01-28 On the Ice with Michael Mann
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: Michael Mann, Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science, Penn State University, Credit: Ed Ritger
When Michael Mann and colleagues published the infamous “hockey stick papers” in 1999, Mann soon found himself under attack by climate skeptics and...

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  • Added: Jan 25, 2018
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 8
2018-01-14 Jane Goodall and Yvon Chouinard
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: Jane Goodall
World-renowned primatologist and conservationist Jane Goodall talks about her life’s work, the link between deforestation and climate change and wh...

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  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 6
Biomimicry: A Framework for the Future
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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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
The New Cosmology or Upbeat in the Anthropocene
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: The Ark of Space by Shigeru Komatsuzaki (1968)
Today’s show is kin to last week’s, Honey From a Weed…but instead of seeing the human as capable of flourishing in concert with the natural, in thi...

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  • Added: Dec 12, 2017
  • Length: 58:55
  • Purchases: 1
Fresh Water Springs and the Ocean
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Fresh Water Ecoregions, Credit: conservationgateway.org
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
Point Source Solutions for Solving Ocean Problems
From: World Ocean Observatory
Caption: Plastic pollution "confetti" mixes with baby blue velellas in the northern pacific plastic gyre., Credit: Karin Malmstrom, Marine Photobank
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
2017-12-03 High Tide on Main Street
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: Kiran Jane, John Englander, and Greg Dalton
The coastline has been basically in the same place for all of human civilization and now that’s changing in very unpredictable and unsettling ways....

Bought by KWIT and WLPR


  • Added: Nov 30, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2