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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Scientists warn U.S. Congress against declaring biomass burning carbon neutral

Climate tipping point ecosystem collapses may come faster than thought: Studies

Brazil opens 38,000 square miles of indigenous lands to outsiders

Brazil sacks officials who curbed deforestation on Amazon indigenous lands

Soy made the Cerrado a breadbasket; climate change may end that

‘We are invisible’: Brazilian Cerrado quilombos fight for land and lives

Rapid deforestation of Brazilian Amazon could bring next pandemic: Experts

Cattle put Paraguay’s Chaco biome at high risk, but report offers hope

Game changer? Antarctic ice melt related to tropical weather shifts: Study

As COVID-19 rages, evangelical pastor may contact remote Amazon tribes

BR-319 illegal side road threatens Amazon protected area, indigenous land (commentary)

The next great threat to Brazil’s golden lion tamarin: Yellow fever

First possible COVID-19 indigenous cases detected near key Amazon reserve

Amazon indigenous put at risk by Brazil’s feeble Covid-19 response: Critics

Arctic permafrost moving toward crisis, abrupt thaw a growing risk: Studies

Bringing Christ and coronavirus: Evangelicals to contact Amazon indigenous

Extreme El Niño drought, fires contribute to Amazon insect collapse: Study

Brazil sets record for highly hazardous pesticide consumption: Report

Brazil drastically reduces controls over suspicious Amazon timber exports

Oil and gas project threatens Brazil’s last great block of Amazon forest (commentary)

NGOs charge Brazil’s Bolsonaro with risk of indigenous ‘genocide’ at UN

Painting with fire: Cerrado land managers learn from traditional peoples

Unsung Species: One of Earth’s rarest land mammals clings to a hopeful future (commentary)

On anniversary of nun’s murder Amazon land rights activists at high risk

Amazon Tipping Point puts Brazil’s agribusiness, energy sector at risk: Top scientists

Past and future tropical dams devastating to fish the world over: Study

Pope makes impassioned plea to save the Amazon — will the world listen?

Private firms will pay soy farmers not to deforest Brazil’s Cerrado

Cerrado in crisis: One Brazilian farm family commits to sustainable soy

Bolsonaro sends Congress bill to open indigenous lands to mining, fossil fuels

Escalating firestorms could turn Amazon from carbon sink to source: Study

Carbon uptake slower than expected in Amazon secondary forest: Study

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