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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Enviva bankruptcy fallout ripples through biomass industry, U.S. and EU

E-bikes could cut smog, energy use and congestion globally — but will they?

Critics fear catastrophic energy crisis as AI is outsourced to Latin America

Ecological overshoot is a ‘behavioral crisis’ & marketing is a solution: Study

Fertilizer management could reduce ammonia pollution from 3 staple crops: Study

Toilet paper: Environmentally impactful, but alternatives are rolling out

Pollution poses big risks to global clean water supplies, study shows

Forest and climate scientists fear Biden delay on mature forest protection

Scientists and doctors raise global alarm over hormone-disrupting chemicals

Planetary boundary pioneer Johan Rockström awarded 2024 Tyler Prize

U.S. natural gas expansion would surrender world to fatal warming, experts say

The new Arctic: Amid record heat, ecosystems morph and wildlife struggle

Fashioning a circular future for traditional and alternative leather

Ocean heating breaks record, again, with disastrous outcomes for the planet

Agricultural nitrogen pollution is global threat, but circular solutions await

Salmon and other migratory fish play crucial role in delivering nutrients

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

Detailed NASA analysis finds Earth and Amazon in deep climate trouble

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

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

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

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

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