Garry Rogers

LATEST ARTICLES ( 2813 )

• What Does the Paris Agreement Mean for the World’s Other 8 Million Species?

  

  “The word “biodiversity” is employed once in the Paris agreement’s 32 pages. “Forests” appears a few times, but “oceans”, like biodiversity, scores just a singl... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Anti-government Ranchers Received Over $4 Million in Taxpayer Subsidies in 2014

  

  “Last June, the ranchers in middle-of-nowhere Battle Mountain, Nevada, stuck it to the federal government by herding cattle onto public rangeland which had... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Climate: Extreme Greenland Ice Sheet Melting Episodes Change Runoff Regime

  

  “When warm temperatures in 2012 caused an extreme melting episode across much of the Greenland Ice Sheet, it may have fundamentally altered the way the... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Blogging for the Earth

  

  Blogging about Nature: Introducing Garry Rogers on the League of Bloggers for a Better World Garry Rogers My blog posts are about nature, about wildlife and... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Holistically-managed, Grass-fed Cows Can Save the Planet! Neat Video About How...

  

  “Holistically-managed, grass-fed cows can save the planet! Neat video about how mimicking nature with grazing animals can not only reverse desertification, but... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• A World in Hot Water Sees Floods, Floods Everywhere

  

  “2015 was the hottest climate year in the global record by a long shot. According to Japan’s Meteorological Agency, temperatures were a full 0. Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• 2015: Biodiversity’s Year Of Integration – Ecosystem Marketplace

  

  “Biodiversity and endangered habitat have always been difficult to finance, because their economic value isn’t as readily-apparent as that of water, air, and... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Growing Demand for Rice and Palm Oil ‘driving Mangrove Deforestation’

  

  “Over 100,000 hectares of forest cover lost in South-East Asia between 2000 and 2012, study finds.” from: www.ibtimes.co.uk GR: This is why humans have to go. Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Climate Change and El Nino Locked in Tempestuous Embrace — Teleconnection Betwee...

  

  “The troubled and tempestuous North Atlantic. It’s a place where the most ominous kinds of atmospheric bombs just keep going off. Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Every Biome on Earth Is Actively Dying Right Now

  

  Forests are ecological superheroes — they ventilate the planet, nurture the most biodiverse habitats on Earth, and regulate global climate and … From: www.bnn. Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Alberta Must Move Away from Oil-based Economy, Minister Says

  

  EDMONTON — Climate isn’t all that’s changing in Alberta. The province’s NDP government has arguably made bigger moves on global warming in six months than the... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Great Basin Rangeland Facing Challenges with Climate Change

  

  “Fighting the effects of climate change in Great Basin rangeland is drawing together federal, state and private interests to deal with what scientists say is... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• 2015 Review: We Are the Asteroid

  

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPq9YAg9mfc From: climatecrocks.com GR: Clear explanation of our impact on the Earth’s wildlife. Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Animal-themed Condoms Aim to Slow Population Growth – with Grandpa’s Help

  

  “. . . will ramp up their attempts to curb what they see as harmful population growth by distributing thousands of condoms adorned with pictures of polar... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Amidst Disasters Around the World, Top Scientists Declare Links Between Extreme...

  

  But it is in the North Atlantic that the influences of human-forced climate change upon the weather are starting grow most starkly clear. There the impact of... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Extinction is Forever

  

  Humanity is continuing to drive species into extinction at a terrifying rate, writes Robert J. Burrowes – not just nameless beetles and midges, but mammals,... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• NASA: Worst of El Nino Still to Come. With Climate Change in the Mix, 2015-2016...

  GR: Perhaps a year of extremes will help bring more people to their senses. Human population pressure (building, farming, logging, grazing, poisoning) has... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Warm Storm Brings Rain Over Arctic Sea Ice in Winter

  

  “As the first front of warm air proceeded over the ice pack to the north of Svalbard, the rains fell through 35-40 degree (F) air temperatures. Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Theory of ‘smart’ Plants May Explain the Evolution of Global Ecosystems

  

  “It’s easy to think of plants as passive features of their environments, doing as the land prescribes, serving as a backdrop to the bustling animal kingdom. Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Wilderness and Economics

  

  “Wildland preservation is motivated by a variety of ethical, biological, cultural, and recreational concerns. Rarely are efforts to protect wildlands motivated... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT