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...
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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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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....
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...