Garry Rogers

LATEST ARTICLES ( 2800 )

• Spread of Drylands Will Hit Poorer Nations Hardest

  

  Global warming, increasing aridity and rapidly expanding human population will lead to drylands covering half of the Earth’s land surface by the end of this... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Cuba’s Actions to Protect Biodiversity Praised

  

  HAVANA, Cuba, Oct 29 (acn) Lyes Ferroukhi, Regional Technical Advisor for Biodiversity and Ecosystems of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), praised... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• A Hard Deadline: We Must Stop Building New Carbon Infrastructure by 2018

  

  “In only three years there will be enough fossil fuel-burning stuff—cars, homes, factories, power plants, etc.—built to blow through our carbon budget for a 2... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Ozone Depletion

  

  GarryRogers:NASA’s annual record doesn’t show much improvement (http://ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov). Originally posted on Earth Report: New Refrigerant Gases Also... Read more

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

• Amazon Wildfire Engulfs Brazilian Forest and Threatens Tribes – Video

  

  A huge fire that has been burning for two months engulfs a swath of Brazilian forest, threatening the existence of remote indigenous tribes. Sourced through... Read more

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

• Namibia’s Hidden Poaching Crisis

  

  Originally posted on strange behaviors: From the ivory black market in Okahandja, Namibia (Photo: Shi Yi) This story is dismaying for me, as I have often writte... Read more

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

• This Could Be the Worst Climate Crisis in the World Right Now

  

  On Monday afternoon, Indonesian President Joko Widodo cut short a visit to the United States and headed home to oversee efforts to extinguish a rash of epic... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Last Act for Africa’s Vanishing Lions

  

  GarryRogers:Good suggestions for taking action. Originally posted on strange behaviors: Walking dead. (Photo in Zambia: Patrick Bentley/www.patrickbentley. Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• “A Crime Against Humanity” — Hothouse Wildfire Smoke Sickens 500,000 As...

  

  GarryRogers:GR: Recovery of these tropical forests through the natural processes of ecological succession may not occur because of the intensity and large size... Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• “Too Furious For Human Intervention” — Climate Feedbacks Spur Out of Control...

  GarryRogers:A sad situation that will get worse. Originally posted on robertscribbler: There is “no way human intervention can put out the fires,” Wan Junaidi... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Human Population

  

  Earth’s Human Population Problem Click the book to read online. I learned about human population as mathematical relationships between migration, birth rates,... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• More Ranching Propaganda from TNC

  

  The above link is to an article published by The Nature Conservancy exalting the Malpai Borderlands group in Arizona and New Mexico. You can read the article fo... Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Is Human Warming Prodding A Sleeping Methane Monster off Oregon’s Coast?

  

  “We’ve talked quite a bit about the Arctic Methane Monster — the potential that a rapidly warming Arctic will force the release of disproportionately large... Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Book Covers for Indie Publishers

  

  I want to recommend a book cover designer to my #self-publishing friends. Rick Holland at VisionPress made two book covers for me. I’ve had covers made by... Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• A Leading Cause Of Climate Change That No One Is Talking About

  

  “Raising animals for food consumption uses 30% of the world’s water, 45% of the world’s land, and is responsible for 91% of the destruction of the rain forest. Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Japan Meteorological Agency — September of 2015 Was Hottest on Record — NASA...

  

  “With a monster El Nino firing off in the Pacific and with atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations now in excess of 480 parts per millions CO2 equivalent,... Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Protected and Intact Forests Lost at an Alarming Rate Around the World

  

  “In Australia and Oceania, as well as North America, the loss in protected forests exceeded 5%. Worryingly, in parts of Africa, Central Asia, and Europe, the... Read more

  Posted on 15 October 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Grieving Over Growth. Gary Gripp: To a Future Generation

  

  BY GARY GRIPP, to a future generation: “Everything central to our way of life is in the growth mode: the banks, the corporations, all our extractive and... Read more

  Posted on 14 October 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Six Flags Wants to Go “Eco-Friendly” by Trashing a Forest

  

  GarryRogers:It sounds like the park will consider alternatives. Good. Originally posted on strange behaviors: (Photo: Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images) My latest... Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• NASA: Monster El Nino + Climate Change Means ‘Not Normal’ Winter is On the Way

  GarryRogers:Thanks again Robert for an excellent review of conditions. Originally posted on robertscribbler: “Over North America, this winter will definitely no... Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT