Garry Rogers

LATEST ARTICLES ( 2814 )

• Australia: Of Droughts and Flooding Rains

  

  “MY COUNTRY”, a famed poem by Dorothea Mackellar, is known to generations of Australian schoolchildren. They will know by heart the stanza I love a sunburnt…... Read more

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

• Outrage Over Government’s Animal Experiments Leads To USDA Review

  

  Story by: Allison Aubrey Lawmakers also introduced a bill to strengthen laws protecting farm animals used in research. Both moves come out of a New York Times... Read more

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

• Arizona Game & Fish Commission May Oppose Grand Canyon Watershed National...

  

  Arizona Game Fish Commissioners Meet Tomorrow (Feb. 6) From comments included in the announcement, it seems to me that the Commissioners are more concerned... Read more

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

• B Team Open Letter Calls For Bold Climate Action at COP21 in Paris

  

  Dear Christiana Figueres (Executive Secretary, UNFCCC), Today, as global business leaders and members of the B Team, we are calling on governments and businesse... Read more

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

• Monsanto’s Roundup System Threatens Extinction of Monarch Butterflies – Report

  

  Monsanto’s Roundup Ready system – a potent herbicide combined with genetically-modified seeds that can withstand it – has decimated the monarch butterfly’s... Read more

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

• The IPBES Biodiversity Initiative Will Need Our Support

  

  GR: The IPBES (International Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) could provide a useful central resource for the many nature conservation programs... Read more

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

• Benefits of Removing Livestock from Rangelands to Sequester Carbon

  

  George Wuerthner: “Rangelands make up a large proportion of the Earth’s surface, and the soils hold a significant amount of sequestered carbon. Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• David Duchovny Tackles Animal Rights, Veganism in New Book

  

  Most people know David Duchonvny as an actor but with a new book out tackling the issue of veganism and animal rights in fiction form, he is ready to be Read... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Conservationists v Chainsaws: the RSPB’s Battle to Save an Indonesian Rainforest

  

  Colm O’Molloy, Guardian: “In 2007 an RSPB-led group bought up a series of logged-out Indonesian forests to bring them back from the brink. Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Eating Tilapia is Worse Than Eating Bacon – Dr Axe

  

  Fish is a low fat, high protein food that has a range of health benefits. However, given what we know of fish and its sources today, that’s not always true.... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Using Nature’s Mycorrhizal Tool-Kit to Compete with Weeds Vs Killing Them with...

  

  There are also some other important points to consider regarding farm cost savings and higher production yields with mycorrhizae. Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Free UW Wildlife Course Would Please Aldo Leopold

  

  Online class explores hunting and role in conservation. Source: www.greenbaypressgazette.com GR: I’m thinking Leopold would be appalled. Like many of us, Leopol... Read more

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

• Americans’ Increasing Distrust of Science — and Not Just on Climate Change

  

  By Aaron Blake. “It’s also not just Republicans. “Eight in 10 Americans believe science has made life better for most people, but they still don’t trust... Read more

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

• Unusual Number of Anti Animal Rights Posts Today

  Read some of the articles on my Google News feed and you’ll see what I mean. Here’s a related(?) story: “… they found that for right-wingers, meat-eating... Read more

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

• Study: Livestock Grazing on Public Lands Cost Taxpayers $1 Billion Over Past...

  

  GarryRogers:Ranchers I’ve known receive public funds to build livestock management facilities on public lands. When ranchers do the work themselves, the income... Read more

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

• Something Really, Really Terrible is About to Happen to Our Coral

  

  The last time this happened, we lost almost a fifth of world reefs. “Coral reefs cover just 0.1 percent of the ocean floor, but provide habitat to 25 percent... Read more

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

• Study Shows Challenges of Restoring Fracking Sites

  

  ‘Wildlife habitat goals cannot be realized by merely establishing grasses …’ Staff Report FRISCO — Restoring areas after drilling and fracking requires more tha... Read more

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

• CSIRO, BOM Research Shows How Climate Change Will Affect Australia

  

  GR: The fires of our industry have changed our planet. There is enough added carbon in the atmosphere to produce the changes CSIRO and BOM predict. How much... Read more

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

• Beetle Vs. Bird: Expert Panel Weighs in on Biocontrol of Invasive Tamarisk Trees

  

  Anna Sher Simon: “Tamarisk was introduced to the Western U.S. from Eurasia in the late 1800s, and over the next 50 years it was widely planted as a fast-growing... Read more

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

• An Australia Day Post on Australian Wildlife Conservation

  

  GarryRogers:Great discussion of European settlement’s terrible impact on nature. The eastern quoll is now extinct on the Australian mainland and declining in... Read more

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