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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Samarco chief faces criminal investigation over collapsed Brazil dam

Study: Drought impedes tree growth, shuts down Amazon carbon sink

Fish kills at Amazon’s Belo Monte dam point up builder’s failures

Amazon turtles imperilled by dams, mercury pollution and illegal trade

Pre-Columbian Amazon settlement primarily ate fish — more sustainable?

Illegal gold mining causing mercury contamination in indigenous groups

Unknown, ignored and disappearing: Asia’s Almost Famous Animals

Small time land speculators profit in advance of Amazon dams

Amazonian catfish’s 5,000-mile migration endangered by dams

Indigenous groups pressured to give up lands for doubtful Nicaragua Canal

Orangutan reintroductions could risk population survival, study warns

Rio Doce grassroots response arises out of Fundão mining disaster

Emmylou Harris links climate change to refugee crisis, lends her voice

Arara Indians in Brazilian Amazon finally given right to their land

Dams threaten future of Amazonian biodiversity major new study warns

1.6 million Brazilians struggle to recover from Fundão toxic waste spill

Rising CO2 is reducing nutritional value of food, impacting ecosystems

New Rio Olympic golf course harmed environment, say critics

The key to tropical conservation: scrap big projects, invest in people

Zika: from obscure virus to global health emergency

Climate negotiators focus on carbon credits, underplay human rights

Proposed Amazon dam attracts illegal loggers, threatens local farmers

Warming far outpacing climate action, as UN negotiators meet in Bonn

Tapajós dam puts newly discovered species, indigenous people at risk

Keeping Amazon fish connected is key to their conservation

Leaked docs reveal TTIP unfriendly to environment, consumers, democracy

Nicaragua Canal would threaten endangered species says study

Brazil’s Congress moves ahead to end nation’s environmental safeguards

Ethics, sustainability, and Amazon hydropower: mission impossible?

Lake Maracaibo: an oil development sacrifice zone dying from neglect

Amazon mega-dam suspended, providing hope for indigenous people and biodiversity

Iriri River families fight to keep their Amazonian homelands

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