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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Deforestation, climate crisis could crash Amazon tree diversity: study

Norway freezes support for Amazon Fund; EU/Brazil trade deal at risk?

Precision conservation: High tech to the rescue in the Peruvian Amazon

Bolsonaro administration approves 290 new pesticide products for use

Amazon indigenous groups feel deserted by Brazil’s public health service

Venezuelan crisis: Caring for priceless botanical treasures in a failed state

Brazilian Amazon deforestation surge is real despite Bolsonaro’s denial (commentary)

Experts deny alleged manipulation of Amazon satellite deforestation data

Yanomami Amazon reserve invaded by 20,000 miners; Bolsonaro fails to act

Arctic in free fall: 2019 sea ice volume sinks to near record for June

Cargill rejects Cerrado soy moratorium, pledges $30 million search for ideas

Amazon rural development and conservation: a path to sustainability?

As climate chaos escalates in Indian Country, feds abandon tribes

Amazon infrastructure puts 68% of indigenous lands / protected areas at risk: report

Brazil’s Bolsonaro presses anti-indigenous agenda; resistance surges

Brazil’s Roraima state at mercy of 2019 wildfires as federal funds dry up

Mongabay investigative series helps confirm global insect decline

Carbon to burn: UK net-zero emissions pledge undermined by biomass energy

How to save insects and ourselves

Arctic sea ice extent just hit a record low for early June; worse may come

The tropics in trouble and some hope

Vanishing act in Europe and North America

The Sateré-Mawé move to reclaim Amazon ancestral lands from invaders

A global look at a deepening crisis

Former Brazilian enviro ministers blast Bolsonaro environmental assaults

‘Resisting to exist’: Indigenous women unite against Brazil’s far-right president

The heat is on: Amazon tree loss could bring 1.45 degree C local rise

UK supermarkets implicated in Amazon deforestation supply chain: report

Pressure mounts on EU to curb Brazilian deforestation, human rights abuses

Dismantling of Brazilian environmental protections gains pace

China, EU, US trading with Brazilian firms fined for Amazon deforestation: report

Slave labor found at second Starbucks-certified Brazilian coffee farm

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