Glenn Scherer

About

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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Shining a spotlight on the wide-roaming sand cat ‘king of the desert’

Paradise lost? Brazil’s biggest bauxite mining firm denies riverine rights

Chemical recycling of plastic not so fantastic, report finds

Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran & petrochemical industry stall plastics treaty: Critics

Texas ocelot breeding and reintroduction may offer new route to recovery

Enviva, the world’s largest biomass energy company, is near collapse

Circular economy poised to go beyond outdated oil, gas and coal, experts say

Beyond Climate: Fossil fuels rapidly eroding Earth’s ‘safe operating space’

Beyond climate: Oil, gas and coal are destabilizing all 9 planetary boundaries

The Cloud vs. drought: Water hog data centers threaten Latin America, critics say

Ahead of COP28, pope spurs policymakers, faith leaders to push climate action

What’s old is new again: Bioarchitects plot route to circular economy

Meet Japan’s Iriomote and Tsushima cats: Ambassadors for island conservation

As companies buy ‘plastic credits,’ are they reducing waste or greenwashing?

Battling desertification: Bringing soil back to life in semiarid Spain

Record North Atlantic heat sees phytoplankton decline, fish shift to Arctic

Microplastics pose risk to ocean plankton, climate, other key Earth systems

Pope Francis condemns world leaders for deeply flawed UN climate process

Up in the air: Study finds microplastics in high-altitude cloud water

Forest restoration can fare better with human helping hand, study shows

PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ harming wildlife the world over: Study

Meatpacking giant and Amazon deforester JBS bid for NYSE listing challenged

Indigenous peoples undersupported on frontline of hotter, drier, fiery world

Muddied tropical rivers reveal magnitude of global gold mining boom: Study

Rolling car tires into the global circular economy

From grassroots to government, Singapore takes lead in tackling e-waste

Where are the giraffes hiding? Predictive tracking tech points the way

EVs offer climate hope, but total auto supply chain revamp is vital

Internal combustion vs. EVs: Learning from the past to boost sustainability

Takin’ out the trash: How do transnational waste traffickers operate?

Funding circularity: Investing in Asia’s circular economy business models

The circular economy: Sustainable solutions to solve planetary overshoot?

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