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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Munduruku building new alliances to fight Tapajós Basin dams in Amazon

Prospective Congo palm oil plantation wrecking prime great ape habitat

Imperiled Amazon freshwater ecosystems urgently need basin-wide study, management

Top Vatican official: climate change action is a “moral imperative”

Brazilian court suspends operating license for Belo Monte dam

Forest loss increased annually for 25 years at oldest Amazon mega-dam

Corruption guided award of huge Amazon dam contracts in Brazil

Wildlife catastrophe at Amazon dam a warning for future Tapajós dams

Brazil’s government charged with ethnocide in building of Amazon dam

Bolivia’s domestic parrot trade supplied by birds seen as “crop pests”

Bellavista no more: Peru’s infamous wildlife market reduced to rubble

Local and global forces unite to save Madagascar’s Radiated Tortoise

Damming the Amazon: new hydropower projects put river dolphins at risk

Trouble in Paradise: saving the endangered Turks & Caicos Rock Iguana

COP21 agreement prominently addresses protection of earth’s forests

200,000 of Peru’s primates trafficked for pet trade or bushmeat yearly

COP21: New satellite imaging tracks REDD+ deforestation tree-by-tree

Vatican presses COP21 negotiators for strong climate agreement

COP21 surprise? Negotiators moving to limit temp rise to 1.5 degree C

Norway’s paradox: spending billions in oil profits to preserve forests

The Maned wolf: Saving South America’s largest canid

Organized crime role in Latin American wildlife trade hidden in shadow

Paris climate meeting begins in optimism; REDD+ part of solution?

U.S. a major destination for trafficked Latin American wildlife

Poaching upsurge threatens South America’s iconic vicuña

Eden Besieged: Amazonia’s Matchless Wildlife Pillaged by Traffickers

Latin American wildlife trafficking takes to the air

Journey to oblivion: unraveling Latin America’s illegal wildlife trade

Chinese Giant Salamander: millions farmed, nearly extinct in the wild

Brazil climate change report warns of failed hydropower and crops

Galapagos “gold rush” feeds global hunger for shark fins, sea cucumbers

Latin American illegal wildlife trade exploding in scope and scale

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