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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Disease prevention a boost to human health and great ape conservation

Eavesdropping on Cameroon’s poachers to save endangered primates

One ape, two ape: why counting apes is so difficult — but crucial

Designing the ideal wildlife corridor for Malaysia’s orangutans

Last best place on earth: Who will save the Caribbean’s great coral reef?

Tripa’s Trials: protecting key orangutan habitat through the courts

An agribusiness revolution is needed to save Africa’s last great apes

BNDES Speaks Out: giant Brazilian bank offers rare in-depth interview

Climate change a significant, growing threat to health, says US report

Report from the Amazon #5: Iriri River folk may be forced from their homes to protect the environment they love

Palm oil’s new frontier: averting a Great Ape catastrophe in Cameroon

Major legal system breakdowns threaten great apes of Africa, Asia

Leuser’s Legacy: how rescued orangutans help assure species survival

BNDES: a bank loans billions to tame South America’s wild waters

Report from the Amazon #4: Indigenous and non-indigenous cultures, once hostile to each other, now mingle

BNDES funded Belo Monte dam — a mega-project with mega-problems

Report from the Amazon #3: Iriri River offers up examples of sustainable and unsustainable business

Hope for monkey on brink of extinction: new population found in Vietnam

Oil palm company takes lead on sustainable agriculture in Gabon

BNDES has long history of loans to gigantic construction companies

Report from the Amazon #2: Newly created conservation unit could push long-time residents from their lands

Giant development bank’s social and environmental safeguards called into question by critics

Even minor forest disturbance can cause great ape population crashes

Report from the Amazon #1: Altamira, a city transformed by the Belo Monte dam

Chinese dam builder eyeing major Amazon mega-dam contract

CEO and execs charged with homicide in Samarco dam collapse in Brazil

Naomi Oreskes on climate change: “We’ve blown it… but pessimism is not acceptable”

Communities and cutting-edge tech keep Cambodia’s gibbons singing

Study gauges use of tea as buffer crop to curb mountain gorilla raids

Scientists see like predators to prove camouflage works

Some Indigenous groups wary of REDD+ following Paris Climate Agreement

Republic of Congo awards two million hectares of timber concessions

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