Garry Rogers

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• Mexico Has Big Role in the Illegal Parrot Trade

  

  “Several species have seen their populations crash to the point of being critically endangered due to the enormous illegal extraction from the wild,” says Juan... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Twenty Scientists Urge Raketeering Investigation of Climate-change Deniers

  

  Two retired University of Washington professors were among a group of 20 scientists that recently urged the Obama administration to launch federal racketeering... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Arizona Wildlife In Peril

  GarryRogers:This story is not new, but it is not out of date. The issues it raises must be repeated because they still appear to be unfamiliar to many people. Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Walking in a Welsh Rainforest

  

  You don’t have to go to Brazil to trek through a rainforest – Snowdonia has its very own wet woodland just waiting to be explored Does the phrase “save the... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• With Keystone Snub, Obama Aims for More Leverage on Climate

  

  For years, President Barack Obama chided Republicans and Democrats alike for treating the Keystone XL pipeline as a signal of whether the U.S. would seriously... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Oil Confirmed Under Africa’s Oldest Wildlife Park Virunga: DRC Govt

  

  Seismic tests in Democratic Republic of Congo’s Virunga National Park, Africa’s oldest wildlife reserve which is famed for its mountain gorillas, have... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Forest Service Stalls on Wolf Creek Land Trade Order

  

  The U.S. Forest Service continues to delay the release of records related to a controversial land trade in southwestern Colorado. Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• As Demand for African Timber Soars, Birds Pay the Ultimate Price

  

  Tropical forests are home to more of the world’s terrestrial biodiversity than any other habitat, but are increasingly threatened by the impact of human... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Federal Judge Voids Permits for Searchlight Wind Project

  

  November 2, 2015 – Searchlight NV – Last Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Miranda Du vacated the federal permits for construction of the Searchlight Wind... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Study of Huge Siberian Craters Shows Giant Pool of Methane Below Them

  

  In recent years, scientists have been baffled by a number of mysterious giant holes that have formed in Siberia. Intrigued as to what was causing this peculiar... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Australia Can Go Green and Have Economic Growth – #Auspol #EarthtoParis #COP21

  

  GarryRogers: Originally posted on jpratt27: Negative emissions, as well as economic growth and improved biodiversity: Australia could have it all. Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Summit County Citizens Voice

  

  Commercially managed honeybee colonies may be speeding the spread of disease to wild bee populations, according to a new study by a University of California,... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• The Frankentides Are Coming — US East Coast to See Season of Flooding From El...

  

  According to preliminary reports from NOAA, this Fall, Winter and Spring will likely bring an abnormal number of flooding tides to the US East Coast. Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Living in the Anthropocene

  

  We’ve all heard the oft-quoted aphorism that if you don’t vote, you don’t have the right to complain. I’ve never subscribed to that stance. But there is a... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Extreme Heat Defines Climate Change

  

  The lasting legacy of climate change will be heat. The land, the oceans, all of it. It’s the tie that binds and while the global average temperature is the... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Study Documents High Rate of Reproductive Failure in Dolphins Hit by Deepwater...

  

  There’s already a wealth of research showing that the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico was very bad for coastal dolphins. Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Lodgepole Pine and Bark Beetles

  

  Another new study published by the Ecological Society of America titled “Does wildfire likelihood increase following insect outbreaks in conifer forests? Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Middle East May Be Uninhabitable This Century Due to Deadly Heat, Study Finds

  

  The United Nations Climate Change Conference 2015 is set to begin in Paris this month, and while much of the world’s attention is focused on the dangers of... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• As Scientists Worry About Warming World, US Public Doesn’t

  

  “As top-level international negotiations to try to limit greenhouse gas emissions start later this month in Paris, the AP-NORC poll taken in mid-October shows... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• OECD Warns Brazil on Environment, Economy Risks

  

  Brazil is destroying an area of rainforest the size of Israel every four years despite major conservation progress, the OECD economic grouping said Wednesday.... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT