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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Torrance Coste stands on a stump

British Columbia delays promised protections as old growth keeps falling

Justin Catanoso 14 Sep 2022
A hogfish in the coral reefs

Acid test: Are the world’s oceans becoming too ‘acidic’ to support life?

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 13 Sep 2022
A moray eel among corals in the Mediterrarnean Sea. Image by Enrico Strocchi via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

‘Mind-blowing’ marine heat waves put Mediterranean ecosystems at grave risk

John Cannon 13 Sep 2022

Is having fewer kids the answer to the climate question? | Problem Solved

Mike DiGirolamo 8 Sep 2022
Watercolor drawing from Janet Marsh’s Nature Diary

Wildlife lover and artist records 5 decades of change on iconic U.K. river

Rebecca Branford, Sue Branford 7 Sep 2022
A mobile chipper making short shrift of freshly felled centenary beech trunks to produce wood chips that are burned “green,” with up to 50% moisture, in a local district heating system in February 2022.

Switzerland set to burn more trees to reach its climate and energy goals (commentary)

Lucie Wuethrich 6 Sep 2022
A turquoise tanager

Venezuelan Amazon deforestation expands due to lawlessness, mining, fires: Reports

Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres 31 Aug 2022
A truck carrying acacia logs in Indonesia

Biomass cofiring loopholes put coal on open-ended life support in Asia

Annelise Giseburt 29 Aug 2022
A leopard in a tree

Snares: Low-tech, low-profile killers of rare wildlife the world over

Laurel Neme 18 Aug 2022
The flesh-footed shearwater (Ardenna carneipes)

In a hotter, drier climate, how serious is fire risk to island seabirds?

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 12 Aug 2022
A water reservoir near Cape Town, South Africa.

Drought-beset South African city taps aquifer, shirks long-term solutions: Critics

Anna Weekes 11 Aug 2022
Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, is just one region where fires are burned throughout Russia in 2020. Image by Greenpeace International.

We’ve crossed the land use change planetary boundary, but solutions await

Liz Kimbrough 4 Aug 2022
Bluefins sizing up a school of anchovies.

Sea life may downsize with ocean warming — bringing challenging impacts

Elizabeth Devitt 3 Aug 2022
A farmer cuts cacao pods from the tree in Colombia.

Delectable but destructive: Tracing chocolate’s environmental life cycle

Sean Mowbray 1 Aug 2022
Farmers harvesting wheat in Ukraine in the 1990s.

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

Ashoka Mukpo 27 Jul 2022
Smoke from a factory in Turkey

Turkey’s authoritarian development ignores planetary boundaries

Clément Girardot 21 Jul 2022
The snow leopard (Panthera uncia)

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

Saul Elbein 14 Jul 2022
Giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera)

Scientists strive to restore world’s embattled kelp forests

Elizabeth Devitt 6 Jul 2022
A huge swarm of locusts devours corn

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

Anna Weekes 29 Jun 2022
Illegal gold mining inside the Munduruku and Sai Cinza Indigenous Lands

Swiss pledge to stop illegal gold imports from Brazil Indigenous reserves

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 27 Jun 2022
Framers tending to their agricultural land in Uzbekistan.

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

Petro Kotzé 21 Jun 2022
Two men cutting down a tree.

Consumer countries mull best approach to end deforestation abroad

John Cannon 17 Jun 2022
A rancher herds cattle in Mato Grosso, Brazil.

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

Moyra Ashford, Sue Branford 7 Jun 2022
Drying farmed cannabis.

Legal and illegal cannabis: A cause for growing environmental concern

Sean Mowbray 2 Jun 2022
Tourists petting a tiger cub at Doc Antle's Myrtle Beach Tiger Safari in South Carolina, U.S. Antle faces federal charges for wildlife trafficking.

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

Sharon Guynup 31 May 2022
The spotted tody-flycatcher, native to South America and the Caribbean, hunts insects alone or in pairs, and is well-adapted to humans, happy in forest or overgrown pasture. Image courtesy of Alexander Lees.

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

Sharon Guynup 23 May 2022
Wood chips for biomass burning at Tofte, Norway. Image by Statkraft via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

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

Annelise Giseburt 19 May 2022
A busy morning on the streets in Vietnam.

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

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 19 May 2022

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

Justin Catanoso 18 May 2022

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

Jeremy Hance 12 May 2022

Tropical mammals under rising chemical pollution pressure, study warns

Sean Mowbray 2 May 2022
Hornbills — the so-called “farmers of the forest” in Africa and Asia — move more than 700 plant species up to 11 km (7 mi) in a day.

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

Sharon Guynup 28 Apr 2022

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