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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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

Climate-positive, high-tech metals are polluting Earth, but solutions await

Activists vow to take EU to court to fight its forest biomass policies

From teak farms to agroforestry: Panama tests reforestation strategies

The world says yes to a cradle to grave plastics treaty: Now the work begins

Aerosol pollution: Destabilizing Earth’s climate and a threat to health

Brazil’s agroforestry farmers report many benefits, but challenges remain

Caffeine: Emerging contaminant of global rivers and coastal waters

The small cats nobody knows: Wild felines face intensifying planetary risks

As Australia faces new fire reality, forest restoration tactics reevaluated

Tiny plastic particles accumulating in river headwaters: Study

Amazon losing far more carbon from forest degradation than deforestation: Study

Preventing the next pandemic is vastly cheaper than reacting to it: Study

As world drowns in plastic waste, U.N. to hammer out global treaty

Innovative sewage solutions: Tackling the global human waste problem

Efforts to dim Sun and cool Earth must be blocked, say scientists

We’ve breached Earth’s threshold for chemical pollution, study says

The thick of it: Delving into the neglected global impacts of human waste

As climate-driven drought slams farms in U.S. West, water solutions loom

Brazil’s Suzano boasts its pulpwood plantations are green; critics disagree

Climate change agricultural impacts to heighten inequality: Study

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