Garry Rogers

LATEST ARTICLES ( 2800 )

• Act Now Before Entire Species Are Lost to Global Warming, Say Scientists

  

  GR: The top two threats to species are habitat loss due to human farming and construction and the spread of invasive plants and animals. We have expected climat... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Taking the Lives of Wolves

  

  Without Respect for the Innocent We kill by accident as we drive the roads we built over the woods and prairies, we kill by accident when we hide the land... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Faster Than Expected – Nature Bats Last

  

  GR: Here are the arguments for near-term-extinction of humanity and most complex life on Earth. Personally, I can’t believe that we will all be dead in 10 years... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Yearly Coral Bleaching Will Not End

  

  GR: Again, let me say: climate change is happening now, and it will get worse. “Despite La Nina, Ocean surfaces have not cooled enough to end the worst global... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Study Says Road Threat to Carnivores is Underestimated Globally

  

  GR: Roads are an element of widespread human construction that destroys habitat and causes wildlife decline. As reported here, roads have other serious ecosyste... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Cory Bernardi Spouts the Climate Denialism of American Right-wing “think Tanks”

  It spreads. Antinuclear Australia’s richest woman, the mining magnate Gina Rinehart, is also reportedly backing Bernardi and joined him in meetings in New York... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• The Winter of Blazing Discontent Continues in the Arctic

  GR: Climate change in action. We are losing the polar ice cap and that is changing Earth’s climate right now. Nothing good will come of it. “Weird. Strange.... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2017 ENVIRONMENT

• Hedgehogs Now a Rare Garden Sight as British Populations Continue to Decline

  

  GR: Worth noting that even in developed countries with slowing population growth, wildlife decline continues. In Britain, many people do small things to make... Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, ENVIRONMENT

• 100,000 May Have Died but There is Still No Justice Over Indonesian Air Pollution

  

  GR: No family should have to endure such heartbreak because some company is pursuing profits at all costs. The tragedy extends even farther than reported here.... Read more

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

• The Business of Biodiversity

  

  GR: Biological conservation usually focuses on human benefits. Wild plants and animals only have value if they add to our wealth or convenience. Read more

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

• Armed with Smartphones, Cameroon Forest Defenders Take on Illegal Loggers

  

  GR: Around the world, legal and illegal resource use is destroying wildlife habitat, eroding soils, and polluting water. Earth has been no match for humans,... Read more

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

• Armed Herders Invade Kenya’s Most Important Wildlife Conservancy

  

  Eastern Escarpment of the Great Rift Valley, Northern Kenya (Photo by the Luxury Safari Company) GR: Combine global warming-forced drought with politics and... Read more

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

• ‘Beyond the Extreme’: Scientists Marvel at ‘increasingly Non-natural’ Arctic...

  

  GR: Declining ice, warming oceans, and fading polar high pressure are supporting frequent flows of warm air from the south. Scientists and weather forecasters... Read more

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

• How Human Actions Are Compromising the Largest Mammal Migration – and Why YOU...

  

  GR: The growing human population threatens the most numerous and widespread animals. This photo essay by Bee-Elle is about Wildebeest. Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Human Habitat Destruction is Decimating Giraffe Populations

  

  GR: The needs and desires of humans cause extinction, pollution, desertification, ocean acidification, and global warming. Failure is certain if we tackle any o... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Bay of Bengal: Depleted Fish Stocks and Huge Dead Zone Signal Tipping Point

  

  GR: Dead zones will spread across marine fisheries in the coming years. With rising sea level, stronger storms, and humid low-country heat waves, humans will... Read more

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

• Anti-pipeline Activists and Film-makers Face Prison, Raising Fears for Free Press

  

  GR: The first tests of our constitution have begun. Will law prevail or will Trump’s handlers, the oligarchs achieve total control? Contests are for liberty... Read more

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

• The “I Hate Politics” Post

  

  I Am Disappointed! GR having to leave Freight Train behind and go to church. Justice Democrats is almost a mirror image of Our Revolution. Read more

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

• Is It Game Over on the Climate? #auspol | Jpratt27

  

  GR: This article presents a well-balanced discussion of our dire situation and what Trump will add to it. It was first published by YaleEnvironment360. Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Justice Democrats (Just Us) Origin, Philosophy, and Progress

  

  Justice Democrats Background Here’s another good video that helps explain the goals and methods of the Justice Democrats. A little reluctant to use the term... Read more

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