Garry Rogers

LATEST ARTICLES ( 2814 )

• Decoded Octopus Genome Reveals Secrets to Complex Intelligence

  

  “The elusive octopus genome has finally been untangled, which should allow scientists to discover answers to long-mysterious questions about the animal’s... Read more

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

• Global Warming Increases ‘food Shocks’ Threat #Auspol #ClimateChange

  

  Drought is one of the most significant impacts of climate change on food. Climate change is increasing the risk of severe ‘food shocks’ where crops fail and... Read more

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

• Zen for Rhinos

  

  Vietnam is the country responsible for the most demand in rhino horn. 75% of Vietnam is Buddhist. Recently the International Buddhist Confederation (IBC)... Read more

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

• Yellowstone: a Dangerous Place—for Bears

  

  GarryRogers:We must change our attitude toward wildlife. We shoot and poison for our convenience with little regard for the ecosystem consequences. We also... Read more

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

• CSI (and a Poison Pill) for Cats That Kill

  

  Domestic cats have become notorious in recent years as one of the most destructive invasive species on the planet, now threatening dozens of bird and mammal... Read more

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

• Happy Earth Overshoot Day! We’ve Now Used All Our Resources For The Year. #Auspol

  

  GarryRogers:This message is just not getting through to most people. We’ll do what we can. Originally posted on jpratt27: On this day in August 2015, humans hav... Read more

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

• Killing Cormorants: Study Finding Culling to Have No Impact Ignored, Audubon...

  

  PORTLAND — Conservation groups opposed to the ongoing killing of cormorants on the Columbia River to protect steelhead and salmon say they have documents showin... Read more

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

• Tumbling Down the Rabbit Hole Toward a Second Great Dying? World Ocean Shows a...

  

  The last time Earth experienced a Great Dying was during a dangerous transition from glaciation and to hothouse. We’re doing the same thing by burning fossil... Read more

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

• Progress Toward the Perfect Pea

  

  A group at the John Innes Centre has developed peas that will help animals absorb more protein from their diet. The study is published in PLOS ONE today. Read more

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

• Microbial Companions of Humans and Animals Are Highly Specialized

  

  “Humans and animals are never alone. Everyone is host to over two thousand different species of microbes, of which most colonize our bodies only after we are... Read more

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

• Study Quantifies Natural Gas Development Impacts on Mule Deer

  

  A new study by Colorado State University and Colorado Parks and Wildlife found that natural gas development could be adversely impacting large areas of... Read more

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

• Wrecked Pacific Storm Track Now Runs From Equator to Arctic Ocean

  GarryRogers:This post generates big questions: Will this system grow year by year until energy delivery to the pole is a permanent global pattern. Are the... Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Unusual Friendship Between Wolf And Bear Documented By Finnish Photographer

  

  Originally posted on Wolf Is My Soul: From boredpanda on August 12, 2015 by Dainius “It’s very unusual to see a bear and a wolf getting on like this” says... Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Help Wanted on Tracking Biodiversity from Space

  

  “Conservation organisations and space agencies are being called on to join forces to decide how changes in biodiversity can be monitored globally. What, exactly... Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Meat-eaters Are Speeding Worldwide Species Extinction

  

  “To find out [how meat consumption impacted biodiversity], Brian Machovina and his colleagues looked at studies that identified the world’s biodiversity... Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Wildlife Groups Say 41 Tigers Have Died in India in Seven Months

  

  Conservationists say India is not doing enough to protect tigers. Six months after India boasted that its tiger population was growing fast, conservationists... Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Mountains and Climate Change: A Global Concern

  https://www.youtube.com/v/h7eHz-rqMt0?fs=1 hl=fr_FR In a changing climate, mountain regions are among the most vulnerable. Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Clean Energy, Not Coal, is the Solution to Poverty. #Auspol #ClimateChange

  

  It is the development conundrum of our era. Extremely poor people cannot lift themselves out of poverty without access to reliable energy. More than a billion... Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Will Yellowstone Be Safer If This Bear is Killed?

  GarryRogers:With over half of all animals on Earth gone now, it’s time to carefully consider every act that will reduce them further. Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Save the Shipwrecks to Save the Fish (and the Fishing)

  

  GarryRogers:Wildlife benefits from many of the objects abandoned by humans. Old mines provide homes for Ringtail troops, and an old sofa serves as a packrat... Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT