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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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

The Black-faced Spoonbill: Asia’s beloved wading bird fights for space

Oil roads to ecological ruin: Ecuador’s bushmeat and wildlife trade

São Paolo Trafficking: Smuggling Brazil’s Wildlife

Catholic bishops ask for binding, transformative COP21 climate treaty

The Long-beaked Echidna: can we save the earth’s oldest living mammal?

Three Amazon nations, three approaches to reducing deforestation

Brazil poised to break global moratorium on GM Terminator seeds

The maleo: a success story for Indonesia’s strange pit-digging bird

The Muriqui: Brazil’s critically endangered “hippie monkey” hangs tough

What is a bettong?

Trafficked tropical animals: the ghost exports of Venezuela

Policing domestic wildlife trafficking in Peru

Africa’s unloved vultures headed for extinction?

Papal encyclical draws harsh critique from Peru’s private sector

Pope’s encyclical draws support from Peru’s #1 environmental official

Pope and Peru’s top mining CEO agree and at odds on environment

Peru’s Conundrum: a Pope’s environmental message divides his people

Endangered fishing cat thought extinct in Cambodia, caught on camera

The Cat Ba Langur: a primate walks the razor’s edge of extinction

400+ dams could irrevocably harm Amazon ecology — but solutions exist

Hundreds of new Amazon dams an “ecological experiment” on global scale

Endangered turtle destined for soup pot gets new start

Pangolins in Peril: rallying the world to curb the global China trade

Migration between Peruvian Andes and Amazon impacts both environments

Bolivia’s Morales pushes controversial TIPNIS highway forward

A diamond in the marsh: Saving the Lake Alaotra Gentle Lemur

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