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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Sea life may downsize with ocean warming — bringing challenging impacts

Delectable but destructive: Tracing chocolate’s environmental life cycle

Did Wall Street play a role in this year’s wheat price crisis?

Turkey’s authoritarian development ignores planetary boundaries

In world convulsed by climate-driven conflict, are peace parks an answer?

Scientists strive to restore world’s embattled kelp forests

High tech early warning system could curb next South African locust swarms

Swiss pledge to stop illegal gold imports from Brazil Indigenous reserves

Beyond boundaries: Earth’s water cycle is being bent to breaking point

Consumer countries mull best approach to end deforestation abroad

Foreign capital powers Brazil’s meatpackers and helps deforest the Amazon

Legal and illegal cannabis: A cause for growing environmental concern

Year of the Tiger: Illegal trade thrives amid efforts to save wild tigers

Rachel Carson’s ‘Silent Spring’ 60 years on: Birds still fading from the skies

As biomass burning surges in Japan and South Korea, where will Asia get its wood?

9m deaths a year from pollution, the ‘largest existential threat’ to humans

EU Parliament’s Environment Committee urges scale back of biomass burning

Geoengineering Earth’s climate future: Straight talk with Wake Smith

Tropical mammals under rising chemical pollution pressure, study warns

As animal seed dispersers go the way of the dodo, forest plants are at risk

Cradle of transformation: The Mediterranean and climate change

Freshwater planetary boundary “considerably” transgressed: New research

Unseen crisis: Threatened gut microbiome also offers hope for world

The world’s dams: Doing major harm but a manageable problem?

Robot revolution: A new real-time accounting system for ocean carbon

Global biodiversity is in crisis, but how bad is it? It’s complicated

Sustainable fashion: Biomaterial revolution replacing fur and skins

All coked up: The global environmental impacts of cocaine

Traditional knowledge guides protection of planetary health in Finland

Multiyear ice thinner than thought as Arctic sea ice reaches winter max: Studies

Chemical recycling: ‘Green’ plastics solution makes more pollution, says report

Pharmaceutical water pollution detected deep in the Brazilian Amazon

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