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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Old and new solutions pave way to net-zero emissions farming, studies show

Cerrado desertification: Savanna could collapse within 30 years, says study

Lessons from the 2021 Amazon flood (commentary)

Amazon and Cerrado deforestation, warming spark record drought in urban Brazil

Turning Kenya’s problematic invasive plants into useful bioenergy

As Arctic warms, scientists wrestle with its climate ‘tipping point’

The science of forest biomass: Conflicting studies map the controversy

As Arctic melt sets early July record, hard times lie ahead for ice: Studies

Playing the long game: ExxonMobil gambles on algae biofuel

Biofuel in Mexico: Uphill battle against bureaucracy, organized crime

Converting biowaste to biogas could power cleaner, sustainable Earth future

Exhibition showcases Claudia Andujar’s half-century fight for the Yanomami

Amazon dams: No clean water, fish dying, then the pandemic came

Cleaning up Cambodia’s kitchens could curb deforestation, climate change

Rush to turn ‘black diamonds’ into cash eats up Uganda’s forests, fruits

Forest advocates press EU leader to rethink views on biomass and energy

Brazil’s Uru-eu-wau-wau document COVID-19 victory with new video

Brazil ‘Adopt-a-Park’ program may negatively impact traditional peoples

Unregulated by U.S. at home, Facebook boosts wildlife trafficking abroad

The key to averting environmental catastrophe is right beneath our feet

Reptile traffickers trawl scientific literature, target newly described species

As the rest of world tackles plastics disposal, the U.S. resists

Ever-evolving Montreal Protocol a model for environmental treaties

Humanity’s challenge of the century: Conserving Earth’s freshwater systems

The HFC challenge: Can the Montreal Protocol continue its winning streak?

‘Zero illegal deforestation’ – One more Bolsonaro distortion (commentary)

Arctic biodiversity at risk as world overshoots climate planetary boundary

Reversing warming quickly could prevent worst climate change effects: Study

Bolsonaro abandons enhanced Amazon commitment same day he makes it

‘Profound ignorance’: Microbes, a missing piece in the biodiversity puzzle

Leaders make bold climate pledges, but is it ‘all just smoke and mirrors?’: Critics

As climate summit unfolds, no Biden-Bolsonaro Amazon deal forthcoming

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