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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A herd of cows.

Agricultural nitrogen pollution is global threat, but circular solutions await

Claire Asher 16 Jan 2024
A black bear fishes for salmon.

Salmon and other migratory fish play crucial role in delivering nutrients

Ruth Kamnitzer 3 Jan 2024
Rubber duckies

As the world swims in plastic, some offer an answer: Ban the toxic two

Alden Wicker 2 Jan 2024
At least 228 freshwater dolphins have died in lakes connected to rivers, possibly killed by excess heat.

Detailed NASA analysis finds Earth and Amazon in deep climate trouble

Jenny Gonzales 21 Dec 2023
Two wild Przewalski’s horses (mares), apparently infatuated with a domestic stallion at a farm in Dytiaku, Ukraine

Long-term wildlife impacts at Chornobyl, Fukushima may yield ‘a new ecology’

Annelise Giseburt 21 Dec 2023
An excavator at a coal mine.

COP28 ‘breakthrough’ elevates litigation as vital route to climate action

Justin Catanoso 13 Dec 2023
Melting ice.

Earth on ‘devastating trajectory’ to global tipping points. But there’s hope.

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 12 Dec 2023
The sand cat’s exceptional hearing helps the species hunt in the desert at night. Here, a sand cat was caught on camera with a meal clutched in its mouth.

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

Petro Kotzé 11 Dec 2023
Jesi Ferreira de Castro, coordinator of the São Francisco community

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

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 27 Nov 2023
A waste processing management facility

Chemical recycling of plastic not so fantastic, report finds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 24 Nov 2023
Throwaway single-use plastic trash at a festival in Germany.

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

Charles Pekow 22 Nov 2023
An endangered Texas ocelot (Leopardus pardalis)

Texas ocelot breeding and reintroduction may offer new route to recovery

Erik Iverson 21 Nov 2023
Aerial view showing a massive ring of thousands of whole trees at Enviva’s Sampson County, North Carolina

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

Justin Catanoso 20 Nov 2023
Fossils fuels are emblematic of a “take-make-waste” economic model that is pushing humanity beyond safe limits, experts say.

Circular economy poised to go beyond outdated oil, gas and coal, experts say

Sean Mowbray 16 Nov 2023
A young boy tries to help a fallen donkey stand during a severe drought that struck the Horn of Africa.

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

Sean Mowbray 15 Nov 2023
Workers clean an oil spill that has polluted a beach on Salamina Island, Greece.

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

Sean Mowbray 14 Nov 2023
Digital screens in New York's Times Square.

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

Gerry McGovern, Sue Branford 2 Nov 2023
Pope Francis has inspired people the world over.

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

Justin Catanoso 30 Oct 2023
Arg-e Bam in Iran, a trading center on the famous Silk Road, known to be the largest adobe building in the world.

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

Sandra Weiss 26 Oct 2023
The Iriomote cat (Prionailurus bengalensis iriomotensi).

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

Annelise Giseburt 24 Oct 2023
The Deekali Project: Women washing plastic waste to prepare for the grinding machine at a local recycling facility in Senegal.

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

Charles Pekow 19 Oct 2023
Regenerative agriculture methods, such as green cover crops, help Santiaga Sánchez’s farm better withstand persistent drought punctuated by sudden violent storms.

Battling desertification: Bringing soil back to life in semiarid Spain

Jaime Velázquez, Xaume Olleros 17 Oct 2023
A trawler Naoned in the European part of North Atlantic Ocean.

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

Juliette Portala 12 Oct 2023
Plastics of all shapes, sizes, colors and composition enter the ocean every day, with largely unknown impacts.

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

Claire Asher 9 Oct 2023

Pope Francis condemns world leaders for deeply flawed UN climate process

Justin Catanoso 5 Oct 2023
Clouds over mountains in Japan.

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

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 5 Oct 2023
An oriental pied hornbill in Sabah's rainforest.

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

Jeremy Hance 28 Sep 2023
PFAS and other chemical pollution are posing a growing threat to the little auk (Alle alle) and other Arctic seabirds.

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

Sharon Guynup 26 Sep 2023
Cattle grazing in the Amazon.

Meatpacking giant and Amazon deforester JBS bid for NYSE listing challenged

Shanna Hanbury 20 Sep 2023
“We sow our plants and when the time of flowering comes, the drought dries them up and they die,” says Mariano from rural Indigenous Guatemala.

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

Jeremy Hance 13 Sep 2023
A muddied river.

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

Shanna Hanbury 5 Sep 2023
Tires by the road.

Rolling car tires into the global circular economy

Sean Mowbray 21 Aug 2023

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Black-flanked Rock Wallaby (Petrogale lateralis) in Cape Range National Park, Western Australia, Australia. The Australian Government has classed this wallaby as endangered under the EPBC Act. Image by Dsyzdek (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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