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 National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration of the Un...
27 Maj 5min
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 National Statistics to provide illustration of four ocean f...
27 Maj 5min
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 prospects of sea level rise, extreme weather, floods and coas...
27 Maj 5min
To Regulate
Regulate is a verb with many nuanced meanings: to standardize, to classify, to monitor, to supervise, to coordinate, to administer, to rectify. Government and the courts are designed as the tools of r...
29 Apr 5min
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, and a severity index by category: environmental, geopolitic...
22 Apr 5min
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 two years as summarized in this episode. A new Ocean Commissi...
15 Apr 5min
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--particularly the emerging aquaculture opportunities along the Atlantic ...
8 Apr 5min
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 World Ocean Radio we'll argue for invention as a primary way fo...
2 Apr 5min
