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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Indigenous traditional knowledge revival helps conserve great apes

Trade in skulls, body parts severely threatens Cameroon’s great apes

Is Brazil green washing hydropower? The case of the Teles Pires dam

Pileated gibbons poached as bushmeat to feed illegal rosewood loggers

Great apes and greater challenges: Trafficking in Cameroon

‘Day of Terror’: Munduruku village attacked by Brazil’s Federal Police

The end of a People: Amazon dam destroys sacred Munduruku “Heaven”

Local NGOs: Ecosystem services, not orangutans, key to saving Leuser

Battle for the Amazon: Tapajós Basin threatened by massive development

Temer government set to overthrow Brazil’s environmental agenda

All I want for Christmas… a wildlife researcher’s holiday wish list

Resource wars: Brazilian gold miners go up against indigenous people

Brazilian state invites private companies to run Atlantic Forest parks

Vanishing point: Bumblebee bat is world’s smallest; it’s also at risk

Home for the holidays: Chimp exits war-torn Iraq, lands in Kenya

Brazil’s dispossessed: Belo Monte dam ruinous for indigenous cultures

The media megaphone: does it help curb bad infrastructure projects?

From loathed to loved: Villagers rally to save Greater Adjutant stork

Field Notes: Boosting biodiversity by studying human values, gender

A dam shame: the plight of the Mekong giant catfish

Top scientists: Amazon’s Tapajós Dam Complex “a crisis in the making”

Silent soldiers of the extreme, or why I’m glad I’m not a wild yak

Amazon oil spill impacts indigenous villages on Teles Pires River

Where have all the lutungs gone? Mystery monkeys fast disappearing

Trump vows Paris Agreement pull out; world unites behind green economy

Trump election leaves COP22 climate delegates aghast, shaken but firm

Global trade 101: How NAFTA’s Chapter 11 overrides environmental laws

Asia races to save the Critically Endangered helmeted hornbill

Rio Doce: The murder of an already dead river (commentary)

Beyond Paris: COP22, a critical nuts-and-bolts carbon-cutting summit

One-Year Anniversary of Brazil dam disaster brings prosecutions

Thirst for coltan, gold threatens Venezuelan forests, indigenous lands

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