Glenn Scherer

About

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.

RSS
1219 stories

Merger of Brazil’s agriculture and environment ministries in limbo

China increasingly involved in Brazil’s ambitious Amazon rail network

Cerrado farm community fights for life against dam and eucalyptus growers

Deforestation-linked Brazilian beef still flowing into international markets: report

The Brazilian government’s land war against rebel slave descendants

Violence spikes during Brazil elections, rural minorities fear worse

Amazon and climate science threatened if Bolsonaro elected Brazil’s president (commentary)

Grainrail: ‘2nd revolution in Brazilian agribusiness’ and Amazon threat

Jair Bolsonaro: looming threat to the Amazon and global climate?

Fate of the Amazon is on the ballot in Brazil’s presidential election (commentary)

Land rights, forests, food systems central to limiting global warming: report

Landless movement leader assassinated in Brazilian Amazon

Amazonia and the setbacks of Brazil’s political moment (commentary)

Brazil scraps 11 new Amazon protected areas covering 2,316 square miles

8,100-square-mile indigenous reserve recognized in Brazilian Amazon

Cerrado towns terrorized to provide toilet paper for the world, say critics

‘Predatory agribusiness’ likely to gain more power in Brazil election: report

Dress like a polar bear: learning to love muskoxen at 15 below zero

Traditional groups sowing sustainable crops could save Venezuelan park

Slave labor found at Starbucks-certified Brazil coffee plantation

Brazilian elections and the environment: where top candidates stand

World’s first indigenous carbon offset project suspended due to illegal mining

Brazilian legislators break law, attack Amazon, trade freely with world: report

A Brazilian mourns what was lost in the National Museum fire

Brazil’s pesticide poisoning problem poses global dilemma, say critics

South American soy fed to EU livestock drives Gran Chaco deforestation

Brazil austerity policies devastating to rural communities: analysis

Ruralists in Brazilian congress put nation’s protected areas at risk

Trase.earth tracks commodities, links supply chains to deforestation risk

Death foretold? A courageous Amazon peasant couple resists illegal loggers

Chinese / Western financing of roads, dams led to major Andes Amazon deforestation

Temer’s deforestation policies put Paris goals at risk, scientists warn

News and Inspiration from Nature's Frontline.

you're currently offline