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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The plastics crisis is now a global human health crisis, experts say

As global fire risk rises, modern homes become toxic plastic traps

Shipping emissions reduction sheds light on marine cloud geoengineering

Bobcats are back, and they’re helping protect people from zoonotic disease

COP29: With public climate finance shortfall, is investment capital a way forward?

U.S. policy experts confident of future climate action despite Trump election

Atmospheric methane removal: A promising but challenging climate solution

U.S. toughens stance on plastics production in run-up to key treaty summit

COP16 biodiversity meeting recap: Progress made, but finance lags

COP16: ‘A fund unlike any other’ will pay tropical nations to save forests

Calls for caution as enhanced rock weathering shows carbon capture promise

Action against forest biomass subsidies gains momentum at COP16

Global biodiversity financiers strategize at COP16 to end ‘perverse subsidies’

New survey puts human face on pollution caused by U.S. wood pellet mills

Delay of EU Deforestation Regulation may ‘be excuse to gut law,’ activists fear

As 25 Earth vital signs worsen, scientists warn of ‘irreversible climate disaster’

As tidal power rides a wave of clean energy optimism, pitfalls persist

Combined effects of human activities increase risk to ecosystem services

Controversial US marine geoengineering test delayed until next year

Ever-smarter consumer electronics push world toward environmental brink

Arctic sea ice hits summer minimum; Antarctic hovers at new winter lows

Inaugural Planetary Health Check finds ocean acidification on the brink

Aluminum and steel vital to energy transition, but need circular solutions

Aluminum and steel take environment and health toll, even as demand grows

Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation at 60: A look back and forward

Will we be ready? Geoengineering policy lags far behind pace of climate change

Arctic melt ponds influence sea ice extent each summer — but how much?

As waterbodies lose oxygen, are we breaching a potential planetary boundary?

Cloud brightening over oceans may stave off climate change, but with risk

‘Polycrisis’ threatens planetary health; UN calls for innovative solutions

Animal apocalypse: Deadly bird flu infects hundreds of species pole-to-pole

Geoengineering gains momentum, but governance is lacking, critics say

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