Glenn Scherer

About

Glenn is a journalist and editor whose writing about the environment has appeared on ScientificAmerican.com, Salon.com, Grist.org, DailyClimate.org, and in more than 150 U.S. newspapers. He has worked as a researcher and speechwriter for TV journalist Bill Moyers, and co-founded Blue Ridge Press in 2007, a nationally syndicated environmental commentary service published in 550 of the nation’s newspapers which has reached more than 90 million readers.

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Endangered Andean cat is imperiled by climate change and its solutions

As ocean acidification ramps up, experts call for speedy ocean protection

Bitcoin boom comes with huge intensifying environmental footprint

Climate futures: What’s ahead for our world beyond 1.5°C of warming?

Climate futures: World leaders’ failure to act is pushing Earth past 1.5°C

Resilient forests are key to ecological, economic and social resilience, report finds

Real-world return on climate adaption investments wildly underestimated, report finds

Marine artificial upwelling, problematic climate solution slow to advance

Tabby’s likely ancestor & Earth’s most widespread wildcat is an enigma

Brazil bets on macaúba palm to make renewable diesel and aviation biofuel

New research sheds light on Canada lynx-snowshoe hare cycle, human impacts

As renewable diesel surges, sustainability claims are deeply questioned

Science lays out framework to assess climate liability of fossil fuel majors

Solutions needed as climate change & land use fuel global crop pest menace

Winter warming and rain extreme events pose overlooked threat to Arctic life

Wood pellet maker Drax denied pollution permit after small town Mississippi outcry

Pope Francis’ uncompromising defense of nature may be his greatest legacy

New research finds substantial peat deposits in Colombia’s conflicted Amazon

Diverse forests and forest rewilding offer resilience against climate change

Betting on future forest carbon storage endangers Paris Agreement targets

Ground-level ozone pollution poses growing threat to planetary health

Polar sea ice continues steep decline; but will a troubled world notice?

Netherlands’ largest forest biomass plant canceled, forest advocates elated

With climate change, cryosphere melt scales up as a threat to planetary health

Microplastic within humans now a health crisis: Interview with ‘Plastic People’ filmmakers

A tale of two cities: What drove 2024’s Valencia and Porto Alegre floods?

Forest biomass growth to soar through 2030, impacting tropical forests

COP16 biodiversity summit in Rome OKs finance pathway; big obstacles loom

Aiding natural pollination can boost cacao yields & climate resilience

Only 17% of peatlands, vital to curbing climate change, are protected, study finds

Getting rewilding right with the reintroduction of small wildcats

Declining biodiversity and emerging diseases are entwined, more study needed

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