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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Alliance of the Bear: Native groups stymie Trump, tar sands pipelines

COP23: U.S., wealthy nations curtail climate aid for developing world

Should I stay, or should I go: is U.S. facing a climate scientist brain drain?

COP23: Trump team leads ‘surreal’ coal-gas-nuke climate summit panel

COP23: Voices from America’s Pledge; in their own words

U.S. subnationals shoulder climate role in Bonn, Trump sidelined

Trump family planning policy may increase population, hurt women and environment

From carbon sink to source: Brazil puts Amazon, Paris goals at risk

COP23: Trump, U.S. govt. seen as irrelevant to global climate action

As negotiators meet in Bonn, Brazil’s carbon emissions rise

Indigenous lands at risk, as Amazon sellout by Brazil’s Temer continues (commentary)

Indigenous forests could be a key to averting climate catastrophe

Catastrophic fires sweep through iconic Brazilian national park

Mining activity causing nearly 10 percent of Amazon deforestation

Carbon sequestration role of savanna soils key to climate goals

Temer offers amnesty, erasing up to $2.1 billion in environmental crime fines

Trump budget undercuts U.S. commitment to global wildlife conservation

Brazilian police nab Amazon timber thieves who faked forest credits

As Grauer’s gorillas cling to survival, new population found

Temer guts Brazil’s slavery law, to the applause of elite ruralists

As Northwest salmon economy teeters on brink, Trump gives it a push

Amazonian manatee migration at risk from disruption by proposed dams

Unfair trade: US beef has a climate problem

Munduruku standoff against Amazon dam builders potentially explosive

Record Amazon fires stun scientists; sign of sick, degraded forests

Trump’s global resorts put profit first, environment last, critics say

Colombia, an example to world, balances conservation and development

Booming legal Amazon wildlife trade documented in new report

Amazon deforestation linked to McDonald’s and British retail giants

Even as Trump and Modi clash on energy, India and U.S. are partnering

Amazon community on Tapajós River invaded by wildcat miners

Brazil: a world champion in political and environmental devastation (commentary)

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