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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Slave labor found at second Starbucks-certified Brazilian coffee farm

Bolsonaro administration authorizes 150+ pesticides in first 100 days

Amazon fish kill at Sinop spotlights risk from 80+ Tapajós basin dams

Brazil Supreme Court land demarcation decision sparks indigenous protest

Stinging ants: Amazon indigenous group girds itself to hold ancestral lands

Bolsonaro draws battle lines in fight over Amazon indigenous lands

Shade or sun? Forest structure affects tree responses to Amazon drought

Amazon could be biggest casualty of US-China Trade war, researchers warn

Arctic in trouble: Sea ice melt falls to record lows for early April

3 massacres in 12 days: Rural violence escalates in Brazilian Amazon

Brazil soy trade linked to widespread deforestation, carbon emissions

Leading Amazon dam rights activist, spouse and friend murdered in Brazil

Days of darkness: Venezuelan national emergency is also environmental crisis

Madeira River dams may spell doom for Amazon’s marathon catfish: Studies

Bolsonaro on the move: International meetings push agribusiness agenda

Brazil’s key deforestation drivers: Pasture, cropland, land speculation

As Arctic neared 2019 winter max, Bering Sea was virtually ice-free

Brazil to open indigenous reserves to mining without indigenous consent

Brazil to build long-resisted Amazon transmission line on indigenous land

Saving the Cerrado: Six commodities traders to disclose supply chain data

EU sued to stop burning trees for energy; it’s not carbon neutral: plaintiffs

The hidden costs of hydro: We need to reconsider world’s dam plans

Brazil’s New Forest Code puts vast areas of protected Amazon forest at risk

Brazil wants to legalize agribusiness leasing of indigenous lands

Cerrado farmer shot amid escalating conflict with agribusiness

Bolsonaro government takes aim at Vatican over Amazon meeting

Brazil sees growing wave of anti-indigenous threats, reserve invasions

10 reasons U.S. must hold Peru to trade deal and protect Amazon (commentary)

Invaded Uru-eu-wau-wau indigenous reserve awaits relief by Brazil’s new government

Amazon at risk: Brazil plans rapid road and rail infrastructure expansion

Dam déjà vu: 2 Brazil mining waste disasters in 3 years raise alarms

New appointments, new policies don’t bode well for Brazilian Amazon

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