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

Muskox and other Arctic mammals are feeling the heat of climate change

Pope’s message to Amazonia inspires hope, but will it bring action?

Record Amazon fires, intensified by forest degradation, burn indigenous lands

A tale of two policies: climate change, Trump, and the U.S. military

Venezuela’s Mining Arc boom sweeps up Indigenous people and cultures

Trump threatens NASA climate satellite missions as Congress stalls

Natural World Heritage Sites in trouble, especially in the Tropics

Brazil 2018: Amazon under attack, resistance grows, courts to act, elections

IUCN, UN, global NGOs, likely to see major budget cuts under Trump

U.S. zoos learn how to keep captive pangolins alive, helping wild ones

Brazil announces end to Amazon mega-dam building policy

U.S. court ruling complicates Trump’s elephant and lion policy

Brazil 2017: environmental and indigenous rollbacks, rising violence

So long, UNESCO! What does U.S. withdrawal mean for the environment?

Selective logging reduces biodiversity, disrupts Amazon ecosystems: study

Consensus grows: climate-smart agriculture key to Paris Agreement goals

Amazon dam impacts underestimated due to overlooked vine growth: study

Mine tailings dam failures major cause of environmental disasters: report

EU-LatAm trade deal good for agribusiness; bad for Amazon, climate – analysis

Top Argentine glacier scientist charged over cyanide mine spill

Brazil / UK push offshore oil pact, a potential climate change disaster

Latin America-Europe trade pact to include historic indigenous rights clause

As 2017 hurricane season ends, scientists assess tropical forest harm

Militarization and mining a dangerous mix in Venezuelan Amazon

Ferrogrão grain railway threatens Amazon indigenous groups, forest

Forced out or killed: rare chimps go missing from Cameroon mountain forest

Fundão dam criminal case moves ahead against 21 mining executives

Trump’s indecision on trophy hunting reignites heated debate

Damming or damning the Amazon: Assessing Ecuador / China cooperation

Pyrrhic victory for Keystone XL as Nebraska nixes preferred pipeline route

COP23: Alliance pledges an end to coal; other key summit goals unmet

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