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The first report on the health of the ocean in 35 years has been released. We'll take a look at what the report found and what recommendations it makes for heading into the future. Mike's guests are Andy Rosenberg, a professor at the Institute for Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space at UNH. He is also on the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy, who released the report. Richard Langan, Director of the UNH/NOAA Cooperative Institute of New England Mariculture and Fisheries and Co-Director of the UNH/NOAA Cooperative Institute for Coastal and Estuarine Environmental Technology. We'll also hear from Bill Hogarth, Assistant Administrator for Fisheries at the National Marine Fisheries Service at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Fisheries).

Over the past 2 decades, insurance coverage for midwives who deliver babies outside of the hospital has ebbed and flowed.

In the early 80's one company offered a rebate to people who sought out those services.

But in recent years, the state's major health insurers have declined to cover midwives unaffiliated with hospitals.

That policy affects both of the state's birthing centers.

And as New Hampshire Public Radio's Dan Gorenstein reports without the leading insurance companies support, midwives say it's getting harder to stay in business.