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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Diverse forests and forest rewilding offer resilience against climate change

Betting on future forest carbon storage endangers Paris Agreement targets

Ground-level ozone pollution poses growing threat to planetary health

Polar sea ice continues steep decline; but will a troubled world notice?

Netherlands’ largest forest biomass plant canceled, forest advocates elated

With climate change, cryosphere melt scales up as a threat to planetary health

Microplastic within humans now a health crisis: Interview with ‘Plastic People’ filmmakers

A tale of two cities: What drove 2024’s Valencia and Porto Alegre floods?

Forest biomass growth to soar through 2030, impacting tropical forests

COP16 biodiversity summit in Rome OKs finance pathway; big obstacles loom

Aiding natural pollination can boost cacao yields & climate resilience

Only 17% of peatlands, vital to curbing climate change, are protected, study finds

Getting rewilding right with the reintroduction of small wildcats

Declining biodiversity and emerging diseases are entwined, more study needed

Researchers make the case for shift from economic growth to human well-being within planetary limits

Lures that attract seed-dispersing bats could aid tropical reforestation

Scientists are tracking global wildlife’s contributions to humanity

World’s record heat is worsening air pollution and health in Global South

Electrochemical removal of ocean CO2 offers potential — and concerns

South Korea slashes forest biomass energy subsidies in major policy reform

Next-gen geothermal offers circular promise, but needs care and caution

Renewables won’t save us from climate catastrophe, experts warn; what will?

Direct air capture climate solution faces harsh criticism, steep challenges

Indonesian forests put at risk by South Korean and Japanese biomass subsidies

Brazil natural landscape degradation drives toxic metal buildup in bats

Deadlocked plastic treaty talks will lead to renewed negotiations in 2025

Storing CO2 in rock: Carbon mineralization holds climate promise but needs scale-up

Land use change impacting seven planetary boundaries, solutions urgent, say scientists

Plastic pollution pushing Earth past all nine planetary boundaries: Report

Cities are climate solution leaders: Interview with Vancouver’s Gregor Robertson

Microplastics are sickening and killing wildlife, disrupting Earth systems

The plastics crisis is now a global human health crisis, experts say

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