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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Bolsonaro government reveals plan to develop the ‘Unproductive Amazon’

Of concrete and corruption: Resistance kills Andes Amazon dams

Agribusiness harm to Gran Chaco genetic diversity: centuries to heal

As Brazilian agribusiness booms, family farms feed the nation

Brazilian hunger for meat fattened on soy is deforesting the Cerrado: report

Bolsonaro acts; Brazil’s socio-environmental groups resist

Community-based conservation offers hope for Amazon’s giant South American turtle

Brazil’s indigenous agency acts to protect isolated Kawahiva people

Bolsonaro hands over indigenous land demarcation to agriculture ministry

Brazil: Bolsonaro supporter works to imprison Dorothy Stang’s successor

Ten years on, Amazon Fund receives applause, criticism, faces new tests

Amazon soy boom poses urgent existential threat to landless movement

Amazon forests not changing fast enough to keep up with climate change: study

Bolsonaro shapes administration: Amazon, indigenous and landless at risk

COP24: Summit a step forward, but fails to address climate urgency

Purus-Madeira: Amazon parks and extraordinary biodiversity at risk now

COP24: Will they stay or will they go? Brazil’s threat to leave Paris

COP24: Nations complicit in ignoring bioenergy climate bomb, experts say

COP24: Trumpers tout clean coal; protesters call it ‘climate suicide’

Belo Monte dam Xingu River Management Plan violates human rights: finding

COP24: US, Russia, Saudis downplay IPCC report in display of disunity

Amazon indigenous groups and truckers ally to oppose Brazil’s Grainrail

Extreme floods on the rise in the Amazon: study

In the belly of the beast: journalist delves into wildlife trafficking

Santo Antônio mega-dam on Brazil’s Madeira River disrupts local lives

COP24: World’s nations gather to grapple with looming climate disaster

Mega-dam costs outweigh benefits, global building spree should end: experts

Tax havens and Brazilian Amazon deforestation linked: study

Purus-Madeira: the Amazon arc of deforestation marches north

Could Brazil be on verge of one of world’s biggest conservation agreements? (commentary)

Bolsonaro pledges government shakeup, deregulation, Amazon development

Saving the Amazon has come at the cost of Cerrado deforestation: study

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