Glenn Scherer

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Journalist and Editor at Mongabay

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Tabby’s likely ancestor & Earth’s most widespread wildcat is an enigma

1 week ago | news.mongabay.com | Glenn Scherer |Petro Kotzé

The Afro-Asiatic wildcat (Felis lybica) is the world’s most widely distributed small wildcat, but it’s also one of the least studied. The cat’s conservation status is listed as “of least concern” by the IUCN. But due to a lack of data, population trends are unknown, and the species, or subspecies, could vanish before humanity realizes it. One of the only long-term studies on the cat’s behavior and population genetics occurred in South Africa’s Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park.
As renewable diesel surges, sustainability claims are deeply questioned

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Glenn Scherer

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Netherlands’ largest forest biomass plant canceled, forest advocates elated

2 months ago | southafricatoday.net | Glenn Scherer

Vattenfall, the Netherlands’ third-largest energy producer, has announced it is abandoning plans to build the country’s largest wood pellet burning power plant. Forest advocates, who launched a campaign to derail Vattenfall’s plans in 2019, declared victory. They note that burning wood pellets to make energy produces more carbon emissions per unit of energy than coal, despite industry claims that the technology is carbon neutral.
Polar sea ice continues steep decline; but will a troubled world notice?

2 months ago | envirolink.org | Glenn Scherer

Sea ice extent is at record, and near record, lows for this time of year in both polar regions, leaving the planet increasingly vulnerable to the cascading effects of global warming. This March, the Arctic sea ice winter maximum reached its lowest extent in the 47-year satellite record, while the Antarctic sea ice summer minimum vied for the second lowest recorded extent in nearly five decades, according to data from the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC).
Netherlands’ largest forest biomass plant canceled, forest advocates elated

2 months ago | envirolink.org | Glenn Scherer

Dutch forest campaigners are claiming a significant victory over one of the Netherlands’ top energy providers, Vattenfall, after the company decided in late February to cancel plans to build the nation’s largest wood pellet burning plant for energy. “This is enormous,” said Fenna Swart, leader of the Clean Air Committee, a Dutch forest advocacy group that has aggressively opposed Vattenfall’s plans since 2019 in the court of law and public opinion.
Microplastic within humans now a health crisis: Interview with ‘Plastic People’ filmmakers

2 months ago | envirolink.org | Glenn Scherer

In a lab in Türkiye, researcher Sedat Gündoğdu zooms in on the image of a small red fiber. For the first time on film, viewers are witnessing microplastics in the human brain. The moment is emblematic of an emerging environmental and health crisis affecting nearly every corner of life on Earth, from the deepest depths of the ocean to the blood in our veins. Microplastics, it seems, are everywhere.
A tale of two cities: What drove 2024’s Valencia and Porto Alegre floods?

2 months ago | southafricatoday.net | Glenn Scherer

In 2024, catastrophic floods occurred in the cities of Porto Alegre, Brazil, and Valencia, Spain. These two record floods number among the thousands of extreme weather events that saw records for temperature, drought and deluge shattered across the globe. Such horrors have only continued in 2025, with the cataclysmic wildfires in Los Angeles. Scientists have clearly pegged these disasters to carbon emissions and intensifying climate change.
COP16 biodiversity summit in Rome OKs finance pathway; big obstacles loom

Mar 9, 2025 | southafricatoday.net | Glenn Scherer

When the COP16 U.N. biodiversity summit ended without a final agreement in October 2024 in Cali, Colombia, negotiators agreed to meet in Rome, Italy, in February. There, the parties mapped a sweeping permanent plan on how to raise $200 billion annually by 2030 to reverse global species extinctions and conserve life on Earth.
Forest biomass growth to soar through 2030, impacting tropical forests

Mar 7, 2025 | envirolink.org | Glenn Scherer

The harvesting and burning of forest biomass to produce energy continues to surge, according to a new report on near-term global production and demand for wood pellets. This growth comes despite scientists’ warnings of the industry’s harm to the climate and its contribution to deforestation — increasingly in the tropics. It comes even as forest advocates score early wins in their efforts to derail what scientists call an unsustainable form of bioenergy.
Forest biomass growth to soar through 2030, impacting tropical forests

Mar 6, 2025 | news.mongabay.com | Glenn Scherer

The forest biomass industry — cutting forests to make wood pellets to be burned in power plants — will continue booming through 2030, says a new report. By then, pellets made in the U.S., Canada, EU and Russia could top 31 million metric tons annually, with those made in tropical nations surging to over 11 million tons yearly. The U.K. and EU are forecast to go on burning huge amounts of pellets (more than 18 million metric tons each year by 2030).