What the Ocean Remembers
Does the ocean remember? Can we suppose the ocean records memory in the continuity of the marine life reliant on it for sustenance, in the e...
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World Ocean Radio is a project of the World Ocean Observatory, online at worldoceanobservatory.org. World Ocean Radio is a weekly series of five-minute audio essays on a wide range of ocean...
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Electric War
If war was once driven by oil, it has now become a function of electricity as its foundational resource, enabled by a grid which is currentl...
The Hard Reality of Our Time
John Walter recently shared an "inventory of possibilities" to Substack describing conditions, in five regions of the United States, where v...
Floating Solar
This week on World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill is discussing solar energy, in his opinion, a pure opportunity at every level of scale and...
Don't Need to Greenwash Anymore
This week, inspired by a recent post by journalist Andrew Lewin for The Daily Ocean Brief, we are discussing the "greenwashing phenomenon” a...
How to Describe Ocean Benefit
ABOUT THIS EPISODE This week on World Ocean Radio we are reading from a Scotland Nature Agency presentation that describes the benefits from...
Truth and Trends by the Numbers
This week on World Ocean Radio we are revisiting the Global Footprint Network and the concept of "overshoot", the number of days by which ci...
Eustacy: A Word for the Ocean
Eustacy is a word used to describe worldwide changes of sea level. This is a new word for us: even though it seems we live in a eustatic wor...
The Incredible Coffee Machine
Some of the world’s greatest innovations were born from unexpected conversations rather than scheduled meetings. Ideas often emerge not duri...
Adora Maris
This week marks the 800th edition of World Ocean Radio. We began broadcasting in 2009 on Community Radio, WERU 89.9 FM in Blue Hill, Maine,...
Adora Maris (Worship of the Sea)
This week on World Ocean Radio: Adora Maris This week marks the 800th edition of World Ocean Radio. We began broadcasting in 2009 on Communi...
Shades of Blue
This week on World Ocean Radio we reflect on "blue" and the profound stages of meaning beyond the color of the sea and sky to encompass dept...
The Climate Change Iceberg
This week we are looking at an organization in Kenya that is addressing the ocean climate challenge.
Apprenticing
Apprenticing has long been thought of as a term to describe someone working beside a master craftsperson to learn a trade and to refine a pr...
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...
Summing 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....