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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Ribeirinhos win right to waterside Amazon homeland lost to Belo Monte dam

Historical analysis: The Amazon’s mineral wealth — curse or blessing?

Brazilian woman threatened by Amazon loggers wins global human rights award

Belo Monte dam’s water demands imperil Amazon communities, environment

Restaura Cerrado: Saving Brazil’s savanna by reseeding and restoring it

Brazilians impacted by mining assert: ‘Genocide legalized by the state’

As Amazon deforestation hits 12 year high, France rejects Brazilian soy

Planned road to bisect pristine, biodiverse Brazilian Amazon national park

French Guiana soy biofuel power plants risk massive Amazon deforestation

Trans-Purus: Brazil’s last intact Amazon forest at immediate risk (commentary)

Crimefighting NGO tracks Brazil wildlife trade on WhatsApp and Facebook

The Amazon’s Yanomami utterly abandoned by Brazilian authorities: Report

Deadly anniversary: Rio Doce, Brazil’s worst environmental disaster, 5 years on

Brazil’s Bem Querer dam: An impending Amazon disaster (commentary)

One year on: Insects still in peril as world struggles with global pandemic

As fire season ends, Brazil cited for failed Amazon and Pantanal policies

Brazilian and international banks financing global deforestation: Reports

BR-319: The beginning of the end for Brazil’s Amazon forest (commentary)

REDD+ carbon and deforestation cuts in Amazon overestimated: Study

Antarctic Ice Sheet is primed to pass irreversible climate thresholds: Researchers

Brave New Arctic: Sea ice has yet to form off of Siberia, worrying scientists

Long entrenched Brazilian military mindset is key to Amazon policy: Expert

Brazil’s Amazon dam plans: Ominous warnings of future destruction (commentary)

‘Digital land grab’ deprives traditional LatAm peoples of ancestral lands: Report

At-risk Cerrado mammals need fully-protected parks to survive: Researchers

Fire burns Pantanal’s upland heart and threatens nature’s fragile balance

Brazilian frog believed ‘extinct’ for 50+ years, found with eDNA testing

Forest degradation outpaces deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: Study

Hotter tropics may worsen climate change, reforestation could lessen it: Studies

Alcoa vs. the Amazon: How the ribeirinhos won their collective land rights

Could disruptions in meat supply relieve pressure on the Amazon? (commentary)

Brazil moves toward transfer of deforestation and fire monitoring to military

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