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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Violence against indigenous people high, as land conflicts heat up

Environmental official murdered in Brazilian Amazon

Barro Blanco dam in limbo after Ngäbe-Bugle Congress rejects agreement

What is a binturong?

Brazil pledges to cut carbon, but government policies say otherwise

Field Notes: Mapping condor conservation strategies

The Myanmar snub-nosed monkey: discovered and immediately endangered

Field Notes: Can we alter endangered species to be more adaptable?

Amazon radio network unites regional opposition to Tapajós basin dams

Amazonian bat identification takes flight with new interactive guide

Field Notes: Wooing wolverines with high-tech lures

Philippine Bleeding-heart doves flutter at the brink, but NGOs respond

Operation license for Amazon’s Belo Monte mega-dam suspended

Belo Monte dam compensation inadequate, say traditional fisherfolk

The 101 on how global trade treaties came to threaten the environment

Black, white and unique: the Malayan tapir struggles for recognition

Field Notes: Expedition to Cuba seeks out new and endemic species

Planned Tapajós industrial waterway a potential environmental disaster

Pet trade’s “cute” and “adorable” label endangers the slow loris

Nixed Bolivian highway offers environmental lessons to big Brazil bank

Dams inevitably result in species decline, losses on reservoir islands

Pulling the stunningly unique painted terrapin back from the brink

Climate change pledges not nearly enough to save tropical ecosystems

Field Notes: Saving America’s last wild meat-eating Venus flytraps

Promised US$1 billion in Belo Monte dam compensation largely unpaid?

Out of sight, out of mind: Asia’s elusive Fishing Cat in trouble

Borneo conservationists and top oil palm firm work to help orangutans

Environmental licence for São Luiz do Tapajós hydroelectric dam denied

Field Notes: Scientist seeks long-term stress trends in Africa’s hyenas

Tapajós dams may bring fish kills, species loss, mercury contamination

Malayan Sun bear: bile trade threatens the World’s smallest bear

Deficient water systems, poor sanitation driving Zika in Brazil

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