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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Landed by the thousands: Overfished Congo waters put endangered sharks at risk

Less than half of world’s humid tropical forests have high ecological integrity: Study

Arctic Sea ice melts to second-place finish at annual minimum

Game changer: NASA data tool could revolutionize Amazon fire analysis

Crisis in Venezuela: Non-governmental organizations adapt to survive

Survival of Indigenous communities at risk as Amazon fire season advances

Just half of major timber and pulp suppliers committed to zero deforestation: Report

Friday night follies: Brazil cuts deforestation funding, then restores it

Are forests the new coal? Global alarm sounds as biomass burning surges

Brazil green recovery plan could boost economy, add jobs, cut emissions: Report

Bleak milestone: 500 major fires detected in Brazilian Amazon this year

Key Amazon grain route blocked by Indigenous protest over funding, Grainrail

Indigenous best Amazon stewards, but only when property rights assured: Study

More than 260 major, mostly illegal Amazon fires detected since late May

Climate change could put tropical plant germination at risk: Study

Is Chinese investment driving a sharp increase in jaguar poaching?

As Amazon tree loss worsens, political pressure grows, and Brazil hedges: Critics

Life among the turtles: Traditional people struggle inside an Amazon reserve

Traversing Russia’s remote taiga in pursuit of the Blakiston’s fish owl

Brazil dismantles environmental laws via huge surge in executive acts: Study

Amazon gold mining wipes out rainforest regeneration for years: Study

The Large-antlered muntjac — Southeast Asia’s mystery deer (Commentary)

Goldminers overrun Amazon indigenous lands as COVID-19 surges

Burning down the house? Enviva’s giant U.S. wood pellet plants gear up

Brazilian Amazon drained of millions of wild animals by criminal networks: Report

Scientists launch ambitious conservation project to save the Amazon

Niobium mining in Brazilian Amazon would cause significant forest loss: Study

Expand conserved areas to boost global economy ravaged by COVID-19: Report

Forest restoration, not just halting deforestation, vital to Amazon

Scientists measure Amazon drought and deforestation feedback loop: Study

World’s biggest meatpacker JBS bought illegally grazed Amazon cattle: Report

Only a few ‘rotten apples’ causing most illegal Brazil deforestation: Study

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