Mario Soares, A Statesman for the Ocean
This week on World Ocean Radio we are paying tribute to Mario Soares, one-time president of Portugal and founder of the Independent Commissi...
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20 of 300 episodesSumming Up Public and Private Philanthropy for the Ocean
Philanthropy is more than giving—it’s the art and act of improving the world with purpose. It is the thoughtful use of one’s resources to st...
Plastic Rain
We think we have a comprehensive understanding of the plastic crisis. But what of the plastic we cannot see? To solve a problem, we need fir...
How Old is Water?
How old is water? Where on earth is water found? This week we're discussing how water is circulated, cycled, and recycled, and where it's di...
Plan Sea
This week on World Ocean Radio we are discussing an ocean-centric view of the world, one that incorporates reality-based actions and approac...
World Ocean Day 2026
Each year on June 8th we celebrate World Ocean Day, a day set aside to recognize our relationships with the ocean through global connection....
Climate and Defense
As we'll demonstrate this week, climate denial is a foolish mistake. We'll show the ways that denial of climate change allows us to ignore p...
True Ocean Value
How do we value nature? How do we price it and define its asset value? This week we're looking to a recent report issued by the UK Office of...
Death of Science by 1,000 Cuts
Science is one of the best tools available to humanity for understanding the complexities of the unknown and of life on earth. NOAA (the Nat...
To Regulate
Regulate is a verb with many nuanced meanings: to standardize, to classify, to monitor, to supervise, to coordinate, to administer, to recti...
How We Rank Global Risk
The World Economic Forum recently published a Global Risks Perception Survey which lists both long-term and short-term risks, their impacts,...
A Call for a New Ocean Commission
The Ocean Foundation is calling for a National Commission on the Regenerative Ocean that will be charged with addressing six outcomes over t...
Lobstering and Aquaculture in Maine: Where is the Plan?
This episode will summarize two recent Maine-based conferences dedicated to ocean issues: the first focused on the blue economy--particularl...
Synergy and Invention
As we address the social and environmental challenges of the day, we are prone to double down on past ideas and approaches. This week on Wor...
Cabinet of Curiosities
This week Peter Neill is spending time with his library of books, sharing three titles that quietly evoke the emotion of loss, and the parad...
World Water Crisis, Revisited
The crisis of water around the world has been the focus of alarm for decades. Millions worldwide do not have adequate water supply for drink...
Ocean, Water and War
We are at war. There can be nothing good about it. Climate crisis, drought, sources of fresh water at risk, population growth, nuclear weapo...
The Energy Grid
How do we generate the energy we need to meet the demands of consumption for the future? Any plans to meet future climate challenges and tec...
The Wrong Side of History
A recent report by InfluenceMap, a UK-based think tank that tracks pertinent climate trends, declared that 32 companies emit more than half...
The Collapse of U.S. Ocean Policy
Over the past several years, US national investment in challenges of climate change and ocean policy has collapsed. This week on World Ocean...