Garry Rogers

LATEST ARTICLES ( 2813 )

• New Study: What’s Scarier Than the Permian Extinction? Burn All the Fossil...

  

  GR: Now, here’s a truly scary story. Happily, it’s question, “what happens if we burn all the fossil fuels,” is an unlikely issue because of the progress... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• A Survey of the “War on Wildlife”: How Conflict Affects Conservation

  

  GR: Conflicts should perhaps be included in the list of the top nature destroying human activities. This gives us construction and farming, global warming,... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• 50th UN Session of Commission on Population & Development

  

  GR: The growing human population is the source of most of the environmental destruction that is threatening the biological diversity and stability of the Earth. Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Experts Respond to Trump’s Climate Blitzkrieg | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

  

  GR: Of course, Trump and his band of nature trolls will ignore the experts. Nevertheless, the thoughts of each one are worth reporting. Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Brazil Halves Environment Budget Amid Rising Amazon Deforestation | Climate...

  

  GR: Of today’s 12 lead stories in my climate newsletter, The Atmosphere News, 3 stories were either optimistic or neutral and 9 were pessimistic or bad. Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• For Colombia, The Rain Bombs of Climate Change Fell in the Dark of Night

  

  GR: More from Robert Scribbler on the intense storms of global warming. As the lower atmosphere becomes warmer, evaporation rates will increase, resulting in... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• The Fires of History Yet Rage — Climate Change and the Authoritarian Assault on...

  

  GR: Robert Scribbler writes about history and the forces prompting a downward spiral of modern civilization. He is writing about the greed and politics that I... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Climate Change Pushing Floods, Cyclones to New Extremes, with Worse to Come

  

  GR: We know that global warming increases the chances for severe storms. This article provides explanations and some details on what to expect. Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, ENVIRONMENT

• Politics, Nature-Conservation, and Pipelines

  

  Abandoning Fossil Fuels for Nature Conservation GR: Fossil fuels are harmful during their extraction, delivery, refinement, and use. Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• March Mammal Madness 2017: School Science Classes Watch Their Brackets

  

  GR: Love it! I would choose a Wolverine for its strength, stamina, ferocity, and intelligence. Sorry losers. “It’s a little after 8 a.m. at Wakefield High Schoo... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Second Year of Widespread Bleaching Underway on the Great Barrier Reef

  GR: Another excellent report from NOAA’s climate group. The news is bad. Here’s one effort to do more than just report on our destruction of Earth ecosystems. W... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Trump’s Attack on Clean Power Threatens Livable Climate, Public Health, and...

  

  GR: Here’s a review of the national benefits Trump is scrapping along with the Clean Power Plan. The con game run by the fossil-fuel industry is bearing fat... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Climate News | GarryRogers Nature Conservation

  

  Here’s a news summary from my Atmosphere News page. Click here for Coverage and Sources. The top stories today are not good. Most of them focus on Trump’s effor... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Humans Responsible for Weather Extremes in Summer: Study | ANI News

  

  GR: Still ringing the alarm, but no one is pouring into the streets. CO2 levels are rising, farms are expanding, forests are disappearing, population is... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Trapping Cruelty Addressed In New House Bills Seeking Bans

  

  GR: The economic justification for trapping and hunting is fading away along with the animals. Even indigenous cultures with strong animal hunting and eating... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Bat-killing Fungus Spreads to Texas – Summit County Citizens Voice

  

  GR: This is sad news for our flying furry friends. The lethal fungus is spreading west across North America. It hasn’t been found in Arizona yet, but we have... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• How Broadcast Networks Covered Climate Change In 2016

  

  GR: So focused on our navels last year, we had no time for the building climate disaster. The Media Matters story below included fine graphics with full... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Farm Policy in Age of Climate Change Creating Another Dust Bowl, Critics Say |...

  

  GR: Most farmers and ranchers don’t preserve the land. They sacrifice soil and long-term productivity for profit or food. We have to give up the common belief... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Access to Nature Reduces Depression and Obesity, Finds European Study

  

  GR: Researchers have shown that people are healthier and happier when they have regular contact with nature (plants and animals). Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Climate Change is Happening Now – Here’s Eight Things We Can Do to Adapt

  

  GR: The first four of these suggestions are for you to take to prepare for the challenges of climate change. You should recommend the last four suggestions to... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT