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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Brazil’s high court curbs executive power to dismember protected areas

A wish list for an environmentally friendly NAFTA

Animal trainers are teaching wildlife to conserve themselves

NGOs denounce Tapajós basin intimidation, violence, Brazil inaction

Cerrado Manifesto could curb deforestation, but needs support: experts

Cerrado: U.S. investment spurs land theft, deforestation in Brazil, say experts

Trump’s elephant, lion trophy hunting policy hit with double lawsuits

Cerrado: Agribusiness boomtown; profits for a few, hardships for many

Brazil ignored U.N. letters warning of land defender threats, record killings

Cerrado: Traditional communities accuse agribusiness of ‘green land grabbing’

Brazilian lawmakers funded by donors guilty of environmental crimes: report

Cerrado: Agribusiness may be killing Brazil’s ‘birthplace of waters’

Sharp-eyed Mongabay readers spot a jaguarundi (commentary)

Cerrado: can the empire of soy coexist with savannah conservation?

Analysis: U.S. call to drill off all coasts, economic and ecological folly?

Small hydropower a big global issue overlooked by science and policy

Cerrado: appreciation grows for Brazil’s savannah, even as it vanishes

Trump to allow elephant and lion trophies on case-by-case basis

Beyond polar bears: Arctic animals share in vulnerable climate future

Analysis: the Brazilian Supreme Court’s New Forest Code ruling

Amazon forest to savannah tipping point could be far closer than thought (commentary)

Andes dams twice as numerous as thought are fragmenting the Amazon

Norsk Hydro accused of Amazon toxic spill, admits ‘clandestine pipeline’

Belo Monte legacy: harm from Amazon dam didn’t end with construction (photo story)

Drought-driven wildfires on rise in Amazon basin, upping CO2 release

Brazil’s fundamental pesticide law under attack

Red Cloud’s Revolution: Oglalla Sioux freeing themselves from fossil fuel

Brazilian Supreme Court ruling protects Quilombola land rights for now

Rewriting biological history: Trump border wall puts wildlife at risk

Trumping Colombia’s peace: U.S. drug war threatens fragile accord, forests

Venezuela: can a failing state protect its environment and its people?

Maduro seeks sell off of Venezuela’s natural resources to escape debt – analysis

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