Glenn Scherer

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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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Scientists are tracking global wildlife’s contributions to humanity

World’s record heat is worsening air pollution and health in Global South

Electrochemical removal of ocean CO2 offers potential — and concerns

South Korea slashes forest biomass energy subsidies in major policy reform

Next-gen geothermal offers circular promise, but needs care and caution

Renewables won’t save us from climate catastrophe, experts warn; what will?

Direct air capture climate solution faces harsh criticism, steep challenges

Indonesian forests put at risk by South Korean and Japanese biomass subsidies

Brazil natural landscape degradation drives toxic metal buildup in bats

Deadlocked plastic treaty talks will lead to renewed negotiations in 2025

Storing CO2 in rock: Carbon mineralization holds climate promise but needs scale-up

Land use change impacting seven planetary boundaries, solutions urgent, say scientists

Plastic pollution pushing Earth past all nine planetary boundaries: Report

Cities are climate solution leaders: Interview with Vancouver’s Gregor Robertson

Microplastics are sickening and killing wildlife, disrupting Earth systems

The plastics crisis is now a global human health crisis, experts say

As global fire risk rises, modern homes become toxic plastic traps

Shipping emissions reduction sheds light on marine cloud geoengineering

Bobcats are back, and they’re helping protect people from zoonotic disease

COP29: With public climate finance shortfall, is investment capital a way forward?

U.S. policy experts confident of future climate action despite Trump election

Atmospheric methane removal: A promising but challenging climate solution

U.S. toughens stance on plastics production in run-up to key treaty summit

COP16 biodiversity meeting recap: Progress made, but finance lags

COP16: ‘A fund unlike any other’ will pay tropical nations to save forests

Calls for caution as enhanced rock weathering shows carbon capture promise

Action against forest biomass subsidies gains momentum at COP16

Global biodiversity financiers strategize at COP16 to end ‘perverse subsidies’

New survey puts human face on pollution caused by U.S. wood pellet mills

Delay of EU Deforestation Regulation may ‘be excuse to gut law,’ activists fear

As 25 Earth vital signs worsen, scientists warn of ‘irreversible climate disaster’

As tidal power rides a wave of clean energy optimism, pitfalls persist

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