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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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?

‘What we need to protect and why’: 20-year Amazon research hints at fate of tropics

Drought cycles erode tropics’ ability to absorb CO₂, study finds

Aviation’s climate conundrum: More than sustainable fuels needed

Sustainable aviation fuels: Potential lagging behind reality

New Tree Tech: Real-time, long-term, high-tech reforestation monitoring

New Tree Tech: Cutting-edge drones give reforestation a helping hand

‘We will decide their future’: Q&A with “pro-bear” environmental journalist Gloria Dickie

New Tree Tech: Data-driven reforestation methods match trees to habitats

New Tree Tech: AI, drones, satellites and sensors give reforestation a boost

Seas of grass may be dark horse candidate to fuel the planet — or not

Return of the lions: Large protected areas in Africa attract apex predator

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