Garry Rogers

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• Exxon Sues a Second Attorney General To Fight Off Climate Fraud Probe |...

  

  “The First Amendment does not protect false and misleading statements in the marketplace,” the office of Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey (pictured... Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Mark Ruffalo Urges President Obama to Keep Fossil Fuels in the Ground in Grippin...

  

  GR.–Mark Ruffalo led the successful effort to ban fracking in New York, proving that celebrities can achieve change. By Reynard Loki / AlterNet June 16, 2016. Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• #WildforLife – Backed by Stars, UN Campaign Seeks to Mobilize Millions to End...

  

  GR.–Publicity campaigns work best when we design them to appeal to the correct audience. Is the typical customer for poached animals and their body parts... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Survey: Australians Want Climate Action

  

  The public appetite for climate policy is bigger now than when Julia Gillard’s government passed the carbon tax in 2011. AAP Image/Lukas CochIn GR.–The... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Climate Change Has Claimed Its First Mammal Extinction – Scientific American Blo...

  

  The Bramble Cay melomys was wiped out by sea level rise, according to a new study By John R. Platt on June 15, 2016.–“Climate change has claimed its first... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Antarctic CO2 Hit 400 PPM For First Time in 4 Million Years | Climate Central

  

  By Brian Kahn.–“We’re officially living in a new world. “Carbon dioxide has been steadily rising since the start of the Industrial Revolution, setting a new hig... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• How Much CO2 Will Melting Permafrost Release? | Summit County Citizens Voice

  

  Bob Berwyn.–“New study shows soil moisture is a big factor in global warming equation. “Methane won’t be the only problem as Arctic permafrost thaws in the... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Chile’s Salmon Industry Using Record Levels of Antibiotics to Combat Bacterial...

  

  GR.–The first superbug resistant to all our antibiotics was reported last month. I haven’t heard if the thing has begun to spread. Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• The Dalai Lama Offers Wisdom on Migration

  

  The Dalai Lama is the most popular world leader, according to a Harris poll, with a 78 percent favorable opinion. GR.–In the narrow context of the migration... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Citizen Science Volunteers Find Wolverines

  

  Citizen science wildlife monitoring project finds continued evidence of wolverines in Bitterroot National Forest. Kylie Paul.–This spring, we wrapped up... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Al Gore’s Revenge — Internal Combustion Engines Stink and This Ridiculously...

  

  As of yesterday, Nikola Motors announced the performance specs and preorders for its new hybrid electric long-haul truck. It’s a ridiculously awesome design —... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• 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