Garry Rogers

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• Monster African Thunderstorm Hurls Enormous Haboob at Europe, 100 + Degree (F)...

  

  GR: Humans cause desertification directly as livestock grazing, farming, and logging remove plants and expose soil to erosion. Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Petition: U. S. Congress, Fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund –...

  

  The Land and Water Conservation Fund is one our nation’s most important conservation programs, protecting natural resources and providing recreation areas for... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Trophy Hunting of Grizzly Bears to Continue in British Columbia – The Globe and...

  

  Justine Hunter, VICTORIA — The Globe and Mail “British Columbia is cracking down on the use of sheep and goats as pack animals for big game hunters in its lates... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Ten Mile Wide Chunks of Arctic Sea Ice Are Disintegrating North of Svalbard |...

  

  Robert Scribbler--“Over the past 10 days, the rate of sea ice extent loss in the Arctic has slowed down somewhat. And as a result sea ice extent measures, thoug... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Climate Impacts From Farming Are Getting Worse | Climate Central

  

  By John Upton.– “As signs emerge that the global energy sector is beginning to rein in what once had been unbridled levels of climate-changing pollution, new... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Too Flawed — “Too Few and Too Many: The Looming Population Crisis”

  

  Joe Bish, Population Media Center: “The following blog post, authored by the president of the World Policy Institute at Loyola Marymount University, Michael A.... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• May Marks 8th Consecutive Record Hot Month in NASA’s Global Temperature Measure ...

  

  According to NASA, the world has just experienced another record hot month. May of 2016 was the warmest May since record keeping began for NASA 136 years ago. Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Legal Ivory Sale Drove Dramatic Increase in Elephant Poaching, Study Shows |...

  

  Damian Carrington, Monday 13 June 2016: Research shows the legal sale in 2008 catastrophically backfired – but two African nations want to repeat the stockpile... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Alpine Soils Storing up to a Third Less Carbon as Summers Warm – Carbon Brief

  

  Robert McSweeney, 13.06.2016: The top metre of the world’s soils contains three times as much carbon as the entire atmosphere. This means that losing carbon fro... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Carbon Dioxide Levels in Atmosphere Forecast to Shatter Milestone | Environment ...

  

  Arthur Neslen, Monday 13 June 2016: Scientists warn that global warming target will be overshot within two decades, as annual concentrations of CO2 set to pass... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• The Eco Guide to Population Growth [not] | Environment | The Guardian

  

  GR: The article below contains an argument for more people on the planet. It uses one of the standard homocentric arguments to justify population growth: A genu... Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Alaska is Way, Way Hotter Than Normal Right Now ‹ Reader — WordPress.com

  

  Alaska just can’t seem to shake the fever it has been running. This spring was easily the hottest the state has ever recorded and it contributed to a... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Three Certainties: Death, Taxes, and a Warming Planet | Climate Denial Crock of...

  

  GR: Lost habitat and wildlife are not even included in the costs. Take what you want and pay for it, says God. – Spanish Proverb Peter Sinclair. Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Robertscribbler | Scribbling for Environmental, Social and Economic Justice

  

  GR: Impacts of declining monsoon rainfall will extend beyond India. As mentioned in the comments on this post, emigration will grow to become a gigantic... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Australia as World’s Nuclear Waste Dump: Should Be a Federal Election Issue

  It is ridiculous to pretend that Australia As World’s Nuclear Waste Dump is “just a State issue” for South Australia. What about the port for receiving the... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• More Than Half of Jobs in UK Solar Industry Lost in Wake of Subsidy Cuts |...

  

  Change in government’s energy policy blamed for job losses just as solar power eclipses coal in electricity generation Terry Macalister Energy editor: The... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Connecting the Climate Change Dots | Summit County Citizens Voice

  

  Pole to pole and across the world’s oceans and mountains, climate change impacts are adding up By Bob Berwyn: For any Summit Voice readers not following my... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• The Past Week in Australian Nuclear News

  GR: Here’s an opportunity to add your voice to the conversation on climate, nuclear power, and nature conservation. Christina Macpherson: With 3 weeks to go... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• France to Formally Ratify Paris Climate Accord on June 15 – Minister | Reuters

  

  President Francois Hollande will formally sign the Paris climate agreement on Wednesday, June 15, making France the first industrialized nation to ratify the... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Meanwhile, In India: Family Planning Beyond Sterilization

  

  Population Control in India GR: Beginning in the 1950’s, India has had the most proactive population control program in the world. Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT