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Michelle Nijhuis

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Covers:  biodiversity, environment, american west, climate, energy
Author of BELOVED BEASTS, tinyurl.com/belovedbeasts. Editor @HighCountryNews, bylines @NatGeoMag, @nybooks &c.; Find me @ Conservation Works on $ubstack.

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Michelle Nijhuis writes about science and the environment for National Geographic and other publications. She is also a longtime contributing editor of High Country News, a magazine known for its in-depth coverage of environmental issues in the American West. Her work has won several national awards and been included in three Best American anthologies. After 15 years off the electrical grid in rural Colorado, she and her family now live in White Salmon, Washington.

Michelle Nijhuis’s Journalist Portfolio

When the Snows Fail

When the Snows Fail

The American West faces persistent drought, whether or not relief comes this winter. When will the hard choic…

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Can Coal Ever Be Clean?

Can Coal Ever Be Clean?

Coal provides 40 percent of the world's electricity. It produces 39 percent of global CO2 emissions. It kills…

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Hacking the Breast Pump - The New Yorker

Hacking the Breast Pump - The New Yorker

At the Make the Breast Pump Not Suck! hackathon, roughly a hundred and fifty engineers, designers, midwives, …

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How Dying Fish Populations Affect the Stability of All Life

How Dying Fish Populations Affect the Stability of All Life

A story about how everything really is hitched to everything else in the universe.

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Rethinking the Keystone Pipeline - The New Yorker

Rethinking the Keystone Pipeline - The New Yorker

One of the recurring arguments in favor of Keystone XL—the hard-fought "bullet pipeline" that would create a …

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How to Laugh at Climate Change - The New Yorker

How to Laugh at Climate Change - The New Yorker

Tragedy marches inexorably toward the end, but comedy keeps us guessing at our fate.

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El futuro incierto del río Mekong

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By Michelle Nijhuis , David Guttenfelder 
| Dialnet - Universidad de La Rioja
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El vuelo de las mariposas monarca

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By Michelle Nijhuis , Jaime Rojo
| Dialnet - Universidad de La Rioja
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‘We cannot replace USAID, but we can do big things’: conservation plots a future without American money

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By Michelle Nijhuis 
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For nearly a decade, the Society for the Conservation of Nature of Liberia (SCNL) has recruited and trained a corps of up to 80 eco-guards to help protect the forest. The eco-guards, all of whom live in forest communities, patrol for signs of illegal activity and share their findings with rangers from nearby parks and forests.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

High Country News intern, class of 1998.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes!

What does it mean to be a journalist?

To make sense of complex, important issues for intelligent but distracted people.

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