Glenn Scherer

Glenn has been an editor with Mongabay since March 2015, reporting on environmental topics of concern from around the world, including global planetary boundaries, climate change, wildlife trafficking, deforestation, Indigenous issues, Arctic threats, great apes, Amazon dams, mining and agribusiness impacts, and more. Starting in 2016, he took over the Brazil beat and helped found Mongabay’s Brazil Bureau. His reporting has appeared on ScientificAmerican.com, Salon.com, Grist.org, and in more than 150 U.S. newspapers. Glenn has worked as a researcher and speechwriter with TV journalist Bill Moyers, and co-founded Blue Ridge Press in 2007, a nationally syndicated environmental commentary service published in 550 U.S. newspapers. He has written 5 books for adults, and 12 for young readers. An avid hiker, he helped protect 1,000 acres of Appalachian Trail land; he also co-led the establishment of the first ever vegetable garden on a statehouse lawn in Vermont. He lives in central Massachusetts.