Garry Rogers

LATEST ARTICLES ( 2814 )

• India: Animal Rights Campaigners Seek PM Intervention to Control Captive...

  

  Animal Rights/Welfare “THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Animal rights campaigners have urged prime minister Narendra Modi to immediately intervene to stop the widespread... Read more

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

• Citizen Scientists Sought for Wildlife Monitoring in Montana

  

  Great Falls Tribune: “The Montana Wilderness Association is looking for backcountry citizen scientists to help collect data on wolverines and other wildlife on... Read more

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

• Arizona Projects Picked for Major Conservation Effort

  

  AgriPulse: “WASHINGTON, Jan. 14, 2015 – More than 100 conservation projects for protecting water quality, restoring critical wildlife habitat, and addressing... Read more

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

• The End of the Partisan Divide Over Climate Change

  

  GR: This argument relates to last week’s Stanford study that found the economic cost of CO2 emissions much higher than government estimates. But, think about it... Read more

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

• Latest Climate Change Battle May Center on Food Pyramid

  

  GR: Too bad rational thinking has to be a battle. By Evan Halper, LA Times: “Hoping to nudge governments, advocacy groups have been busily designing mock-ups... Read more

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

• Why Humans Need Animal Rights

  

  GarryRogers: Kaufmann writes about both cruelty to farmed animals and the danger to human consumers. He cites the common resistance to inconvenient facts as an... Read more

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

• New Journal Announcement, Citizen Science: Theory and Practice

  GarryRogers:This journal is intended to be by scientists for scientists. Still, there might be an occasional practical insight or useful tidbit. Probably worth ... Read more

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

• Wildlife and Fire in Australia and Shrinking Polar Sea Ice

  

  GarryRogers:Humans helping other species always seems like good behavior. In the second part of this post dealing with polar bears, it seems that humans are... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Saving the Andean Cat

  

  Andean Cat (Oreailurus jacobitat) The Andean Cat Alliance has two priorities. The first is to learn the cat’s range, numbers, and ecology. The team hikes the... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Citizen Naturalist Field Work Opportunities

  

  Citizen Naturalists A reader recently said they liked the opportunities appearing in this blog. There are opportunities to sign petitions, state opinions, give... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Scientists: Human Activity Exceeding Earth’s Limits

  

  By Joel Achenbach January 15 at 10:14 PM Photo: “Climate change: A severe drought plagued a third of Queensland, Australia in 2013. Destabilizing the global... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Planetary Boundaries: Gauging the Limits

  

  The chart shows how close we are to the limits of Earth’s ability to support our civilization. “Human civilization has arisen during a period of relatively... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Human Population Most Destructive Force on Earth

  

  Population Growth Devastates Ecosystems One of Issac Asimov’s best known stories includes Trantor, a planet totally encased in steel and concrete. Read more

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

• Long-eared Bat: Fish and Wildlife Service Bows to Pressure From Industry,...

  

  Press Release from the Center for Biological Diversity Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes Weakened Protections for Vanishing Bat: Feds Bow to Pressure From... Read more

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

• EPA Releases 2013 Toxics Release Inventory National Analysis

  

  Comment on the New EPA Toxic Releases Report GR: It is worth noting that the EPA report does not include toxic releases from small facilities, home heating,... Read more

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

• Which Coral Reefs Will Survive Global Warming the Longest?

  

  Global Warming and Coral Reefs Scientists have identified which parts of the Great Barrier Reef and other reefs are most capable of recovering from mass... Read more

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

• Bet-hedging Dry Forest Resilience to Climate-change Threats

  New research shows that the most significant current threat to western dry forests is from insect outbreaks and droughts, not wildfires; and historically... Read more

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

• Does Salvage Logging Make Things Better Or Worse?

  

  When a serious wildfire rips through a forest, it has a tendency to kill nearly all the trees in its path. Then come the logging companies. On one hand, to log ... Read more

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

• The Artists Pushing Animal Rights Further

  

  Meet the creatives using art as their tool in the fight to give a voice to the voiceless. Source: www.dazeddigital.com GR: This is the good art. Read more

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

• Members of Congress Challenge Merit of NIH Monkey Experiments

  

  by Samantha Schmieder: Four members of Congress have expressed concerns about experiments on infant monkeys taking place at a National Institutes of Health lab... Read more

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