S13E2: Surviving the Cacophony in China’s waters
The Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin is protected at the highest level in China, but its numbers are dwindling fast. In Hong Kong, where the species is a...
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Radio Hong Kong host Marcy Trent Long partners with chinadialogue to weave engaging audio using the voices and perspective of experts in China, Asia and the world.
S13E1: Sounds from a Healthy Coral Reef
In this episode, we visit the Great Barrier Reef to discover the clamorous underwater world of marine life sounds. What can we learn from listening cl...
S13E1: Introducing Asia's Noisy Oceans
It turns out, sound is really the dominant sense for animals underwater. For anything further than 10 metres away, marine life uses sound rather than ...
S12E5: The Plastic Carbon Footprint
As ocean temperatures rise with global warming, tropical cyclones are hitting Asian nations like Japan and the Philippines like never before. So to en...
S12E4: Lessons From a Pandemic
In this episode… we’ll traverse from Hong Kong to South Korea and onto Pune, India. We start with Hong Kong, where Sustainable Asia is based, because ...
S12E3: Community Trash Talk
Sparked by the zero waste movement, Asian countries are focusing on reducing..rather than recycling... plastic waste. We start our story on the wealth...
S12E2: Shouldn't They Know Better?
We first travel to a waste bank on the island of Lembeh, Indonesia to see how recycling works (or doesn’t work) in small villages. Then we take a look...
S12E1: Once Upon a Plastic Covered Beach...
We start with Melati Wijsen’s story….a young Indonesian civic advocate who went on a hunger strike in an effort to ban plastic bags on Bali. With was...
S12E1: Introducing Mapping Asia's Plastic Crisis
The plastic waste crisis in Asia is real...and it doesn’t seem to be getting better.... It’s clear that we need a new approach to reducing disposable ...
S11E10: Fukushima’s Ongoing Nuclear Bite
With Fukushima’s horrific earthquake-induced nuclear disaster still haunting Japan nowadays, the East Asian nation is finding it increasingly difficul...