Garry Rogers

LATEST ARTICLES ( 2813 )

• Politics, Leadership, and Responsible Nature Conservation

  

  Responsible Elected Leaders Barn Owl (Tyto alba) Barn Owls are the most widely distributed of all owl species. Photo: Female by Tony Hisgett). Read more

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

• Massive Permafrost Thaw Documented in Canada, Portends Huge Carbon Release |...

  

  GR: Permafrost melt is accelerating as climatologists have predicted. However, there is yet no sign of a truly catastrophic release of methane. Read more

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

• Antarctic Sea Ice Hits New All-Time Record Low | Robertscribbler

  

  GR: Here’s an update on climate-change developments in Antarctica. As in the Arctic, sea ice is melting. Losing sea ice increases solar heat absorption by open... Read more

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

• – UN Campaigns to ‘Turn the Tide’ on Ocean Plastics | ENS

  

  GR: There is growing realization that waste plastics including everything from packaging to the microfiber fabrics used in clothing, are harming wild plants... Read more

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

• Bed of Dan River is Poisoned by Coal Ash for 70 Miles: Turtles Emerging & Dying

  

  GR: Trump has removed protection from streams. He is probably unaware that the problem below is typical of many situations where mine wastes threaten or actuall... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, ENVIRONMENT

• ‘It’s Very Scary in the Forest’: Should Finland’s Wolves Be Culled?

  

  Alaska wolf Yva Momatiuk-national-geographic-creative GR: How can 235 wolves be too many when Finland has 5,500,000 humans? Does nature hold no value in our... Read more

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

• Marine Hotspots Under Dual Threat from Climate Change and Fishing

  

  A beautiful split image of a school of yellow butterfly fishes and the blue sky in French Polynesia. Credit: Global_Pics/iStock/Getty Images. GR: Nature rarely... Read more

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

• Species Introductions Are Accelerating

  

  GR: Invasive plants and animals are destroying native ecosystems. Some species that we take from their homes and release in other regions explode across the... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Images of New Bleaching on Great Barrier Reef Heighten Fears of Coral Death

  

  GR: An update on the continuing bleaching disaster. It appears to me that the fossil-fuel industry has purchased the Australian government and directing the... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Scientists Have Just Detected a Major Change to the Earth’s Oceans Linked to a...

  

  GR: Here’s some really bad news. It’s been expected, but it hasn’t been confirmed until now. Global warming is robbing the oceans of the oxygen necessary for... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• ‘Extremely High Levels’ Of Toxic Pollutants Found In Deepest Parts Of World’s...

  

  GR: We can reverse some of our environmental impacts by removing toxic waste and restoring native species. However, some of the things we’ve done seem... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• 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