NE Rivers, Dams, Salmon and What You Otter Know
Save the Smelt! Wiscasset Maine, Don Hudson is working to restore 10.6 sq mi Montsweag Brook watershed, a tributary of the Sheepscot River. The brook's estuary flows by Chewonki. They’ve got two dams...
View ArticleThe Race for Salem Sound and Coastwatchers
Dive into a portion of Mass Bay, Atlantic Ocean with Barbara Warren and Susan Yochelson of Salem Sound Coastwatch. The Race for Salem Sound is for swimmers, kayakers and canoes with 2.5 & 5 mi...
View ArticleBlue Visions and Seaweed Rebels
We’ll explore the state of the ocean and look beyond the cascading ecological disasters that are altering it including industrial overfishing, pollution, coastal sprawl and climate change. David...
View ArticleRight Whales, Right Plankton, Right Ecosystem
Live from Cape Cod, Rob will speak with the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies including Richard Delaney, Dr. Stormy Mayo and Tanya about what is being done and what you can do to save whales and...
View ArticleSaving Salmon and Westfield River Wildlife in MA Berkshires
Live from ORI world headquarters in Harvard Square, Dr. Piotr Parasiewicz of the Rushing River Institute returns with tales of government permitted withdrawals and hot effluent discharges into a vital...
View ArticleOcean Literacy with the Banana Slug String Band and Craig Strang
The ocean has its stories to tell – as anyone who has ridden its waves or walked its shores knows. The stories are as simple as beauty and as complex as… well, say, watershed ecosystems or estuary...
View ArticleRight Whales, Wrong Shipping Lane: Feds Shift Ship Lane in Defense of Whales
Meet the Whale Guardians of Stellwagen on this episode of Ocean River Shields of Achilles. For Right Whales feeding on Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary life became safer thanks to government...
View ArticleSalmon + Shad + Sturgeon = Healthy Ecosystems
Fish are fighting back to unite rivers with oceans. Prescott Brownell of NOAA, Dr Piotr Parasiewicz and Joe Rodgers of the Rushing Rivers Institute talk with Rob about the ecological challenges...
View ArticleMassachusetts Ocean Partnership
All together now! The Massachusetts Ocean Partnership is committed to helping Massachusetts create and implement the best ocean management plan possible. A plan that fairly represents all interests,...
View ArticleAlternatives for Community and Environment, Environmental Justice for Boston
ACE builds the power of communities of color and lower income to eradicate environmental racism and classism and achieve environmental justice. Everyone has the right to a healthy environment and to be...
View ArticleRoz Savage Paddling the Pacific Ocean, Rowing towards a Greener World
Roz Savage rowed 3,158 miles solo across the Pacific Ocean, west from Hawaii, to arrive at the low coral atoll islands of Kiribati, Eastern Pacific on Sept 9, 2009. 104 days at sea. 203 total days...
View ArticleSizzle, Global Warming Comedy and Shifting Baselines with Randy Olson
Randy Olson, marine biologist and filmmaker talks about “shifting baselines” for ecosystems and his newest film Sizzle to premier in NYC on Oct 23. Shifting baselines are the chronic, slow changes to...
View ArticleClimate Change: Local Practices and International Environmental Policies...
Discover how to reduce our carbon footprint, reverse rates of greenhouse gas build-up while creating green jobs and healthier environments with Professor William Moomaw, Senior Director, Tufts...
View ArticleBattling Assaults to the Gulf of Maine Ecosystem with a Responsive Systemic...
Peter Alexander of the Gulf of Maine Restoration and Conservation Initiative will tell us about a new effort to tackle the growing impacts of human activities in the Gulf of Maine. The beautiful Gulf...
View ArticleSeaweed Rebels Rally with Sherman's Lagoon for Oceans
Sherman’s Lagoon syndicated cartoonist Jim Toomey and Blue Frontier Campaign president David Helvarg talk about the goals and accomplishments of the National Ocean Policy Task Force. Claudia the crab...
View ArticleSolving a Big Problem in the Ocean
If you care about the oceans why you should care about fishing? Amanda Leland and Tom Lalley of the Environmental Defense Fund will tell. Much has been said about what is wrong with overfishing and how...
View ArticleClimate Crisis and the River CAKEwalker
Grab a paddle and pull. Lara Hansen, PhD, will talk of how we can no longer disregard the inevitability of drastic climate change. So many decisive factors are affected that we are in crisis, a climate...
View ArticleGlobal Ocean in Crisis, Deep Descents in Troubled Ecosystems
Alanna Mitchell will take us on a dive 3,000 feet into a far Tortuga sinkhole where no one has gone before to discover new life forms, new chemical compounds, and new insights into how it all comes...
View ArticleSaving the British Virgin Islands, Precious Salt Ponds and Flamingos
Marine biologist, Lianna Jarecki, PhD, takes me into a threatened British Virgin Island salt pond. Lianna explains the complex biology from blue-green algal mats to mangroves with clapper rails, to...
View ArticleOcean Wanderers: MA Sturgeon and Lampreys
Sturgeons and lampreys are truly ocean river dwellers. My understanding and awe of anadromous fish was forever altered by lamprey nest building behavior and what the behavior of two sturgeon told Dr...
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