Series: World Ocean Radio: The Sea Connects All Things
Produced by World Ocean Radio
A series of short essays on global ocean topics by Peter Neill, Director of the World Ocean Observatory
World Ocean Radio, a project of the World Ocean Observatory, is a series of five minute audio essays on a wide range of ocean issues. The World Ocean Observatory is an on-line place of exchange for information and educational services about the ocean defined as "an integrated global social system," thereby relating the ocean to fresh water, food, energy, public health, trade, transportation, international finance, tourism, governance, culture and community development worldwide. W2O includes resources of the Cultural and Physical Ocean; a Directory of 18,500 ocean organizations; the World Ocean Forum to include a monthly letter on ocean issues, a daily posted international news digest, on-line exhibits, and media; and the World Ocean Classroom, listing educational resources for... Show full description
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The U.S. House of Representatives voted this week to destroy the program that has enabled the recovery of six endangered species through a successf...
- Added: May 21, 2012
- Length: 00:05:25
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will share a recent article written by Joseph P. Kennedy II regarding the phenomenon of oil ...
- Added: May 14, 2012
- Length: 00:06:15
While many countries are at work analyzing the challenges for conservation and management, international and national governance of ocean issues ha...
- Added: May 07, 2012
- Length: 00:06:15
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will discuss the relationship of fisherman and customer; market pressure and the necessity f...
- Added: May 02, 2012
- Length: 00:05:51
Today, one of the most startling manifestations of waste is the vast accumulation of petroleum-plastic thought to be no longer useful enough to eve...
- Added: Apr 23, 2012
- Length: 00:05:39
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will suggest that we must begin thinking like an island--wherein communities of individuals ...
- Added: Apr 16, 2012
- Length: 00:06:29
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will discuss outcomes and solutions from the World Water Forum which took place in Marseille...
- Added: Apr 10, 2012
- Length: 00:06:16
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will have us look no further than New York City and the Green Infrastructure Plan as a real ...
- Added: Apr 02, 2012
- Length: 00:06:19
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will discuss these places of development, industry, and manufacturing and will argue that we...
- Added: Mar 26, 2012
- Length: 00:06:18
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will discuss his recent trip to India and his meetings with leaders of the Indian Maritime F...
- Added: Mar 19, 2012
- Length: 00:04:52
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will discuss the key issues to be addressed by the Global Partnership for Oceans and will po...
- Added: Mar 19, 2012
- Length: 00:06:05
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will assert that the time has come to gather teachers and administrators together to take th...
- Added: Mar 09, 2012
- Length: 00:05:21
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will argue for the ocean as the true commons, a reservoir of natural capital without which t...
- Added: Mar 09, 2012
- Length: 00:05:34
With the ocean we are, in all likelihood, at the point of no return. We know it would take half a century to reverse the acid base in sea water if ...
- Added: Mar 09, 2012
- Length: 00:04:57
Rachel Carson and Jacques Cousteau's legacies have driven decades of new investigation, research institutes, conservation action and programs in th...
- Added: Feb 14, 2012
- Length: 00:05:12
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will discuss the invisible impacts of our actions, will argue against the exploitation of Na...
- Added: Feb 06, 2012
- Length: 00:05:13
We at the World Ocean Observatory use the belief "The Sea Connects All Things" as the basis for our work to inform citizens and unite to sustain th...
- Added: Jan 30, 2012
- Length: 00:05:09
We often think of the ocean as a place apart, but it is not so. The ocean is as threatened by exhaustion as the land around us. As population incre...
- Added: Jan 23, 2012
- Length: 00:04:47
As we enter into the new year, our thoughts turn to the strengths and weaknesses of the existing proposals and plans for future actions on behalf o...
- Added: Jan 16, 2012
- Length: 00:04:35
Climate change was in the news again recently, with reports from Durban, South Africa where another U.N. Summit took place. In this episode of Worl...
- Added: Jan 09, 2012
- Length: 00:04:22
