Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNature, Law and the High Seas: Can Direct Action Save the Ocean?
Season 1 Episode 1882
Nature is protected by laws on paper, but what happens when those laws are not enforced? On the high seas, beyond national borders, illegal fishing, …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Nature Is Overheating: Ocean Heat Records Are Breaking Again
Season 1 Episode 1881
Nature is absorbing more heat than we realize, and most of it is going into the ocean. Global ocean heat content has reached record highs, confirming…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Nature's Most Overlooked Climate Solution: How Seagrass Is Quietly Saving Coastal Economies
Season 1 Episode 1880
Seagrass meadows may be the most powerful climate solution underwater, and almost no one is talking about them.
Research published in Nature Climate …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Ocean Fish Populations at Risk: How WTO Subsidies Still Fuel Overfishing
Season 1 Episode 1879
Ocean fish populations are under pressure, and public money is still part of the problem. The World Trade Organization adopted a Fisheries Subsidies …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Atlantic Fish Stocks at Risk? Politics Pushes Industrial Fishing Expansion
Season 1 Episode 1878
Atlantic fish stocks sit at the center of a new political push to expand commercial fishing in federal waters. A recent U.S. executive action signals…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Are All Plastics Toxic? What the Science Actually Says About Microplastics and Human Health
Season 1 Episode 1877
Microplastics are now found in the deepest ocean trenches, Arctic ice, seafood, drinking water, and even human blood. Headlines often claim that all …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Are Marine Protected Areas Just Paper Parks? The Shark Protection Problem
Season 1 Episode 1876
Marine Protected Areas are expanding faster than ever, but new research raises an uncomfortable question: are they actually protecting top predators?…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Paper Parks? Why Marine Protected Areas Are Failing Sharks
Season 1 Episode 1875
Marine Protected Areas are expanding worldwide, but new research shows that protection on paper does not always translate to protection in reality. S…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Coral Reefs Are Recovering Faster Than Scientists Expected
Season 1 Episode 1874
Coral Reef Recovery is happening faster than many scientists once believed possible, but only under the right conditions. Long-term monitoring from t…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Coral Reefs Can Look Alive and Still Be Functionally Dead
Season 1 Episode 1873
Coral reefs can still show living coral cover and yet be ecologically collapsing beneath the surface. In this episode, we break down new coast-to-coa…
1 month, 3 weeks ago