Garry Rogers

LATEST ARTICLES ( 2813 )

• 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

• Endangered Indiana Bats Face Twin Threat from Wind Turbines and White-nose...

  

  GR: Energy production destroys wildlife. Burning fossil fuel is has the worst impact, but wind and solar are also harmful. Unless we reverse our population... Read more

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

• Justice (Just Us) Democrats New Executive Director

  

  Justice Democrats Appoint Bernie Sanders Campaigner as Executive Director Saikat Chakrabarti from the Bernie Sanders campaign is the new Executive Director of... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• It is Now Two and a Half Minutes to Midnight | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

  

  Nagasaki nuclear explosion photo by Charles Levy from one of the B29 Superfortresses GR: A group of concerned scientists created the Doomsday Clock at the end o... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Platform Addition for the Justice Democrats

  

  Justice Democrats Platform Omission Monarch butterfly at Coldwater Farm. I agree with the 20 items included in the Justice Democrats platform. My concerns for... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, ENVIRONMENT

• Why You Should Care: Trump’s Order on the Border Wall

  

  GR: In the midst of the greatest mass extinction in Earth history, the U. S. government is stepping in to do even more to disrupt wildlife movements and put mor... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, ENVIRONMENT

• A Lake District Winter Birdwatching Guide – Craig Manor Hotel

  

  GR: A Cassin’s Finch perched in a small Mulberry three feet off my right shoulder while I filled the feeder this morning. He hopped about impatiently pausing fo... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, ENVIRONMENT

• Reforming American Politics: Justice Democrats Looking Good

  

  About the Justice Democrats (Just Us) The Justice Democrats’ goal is to renew/replace our establishment democratic party with a truly progressive party. Read more

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

• Justice Democrats » Platform

  

  GR: Here’s a portion of the platform of a new political initiative, the Justice Democrats. The initiative’s goal is to find and support powerful progressives... Read more

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

• EPA Backs Away from Protecting Pollinators

  

  The EPA has been a disappointment. Will it get worse? Summit County Citizens Voice Bees are taking a big hit from neonicotinoid pesticides, and the EPA isn’t... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT