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Michelle Nijhuis

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Michelle Nijhuis is an environmental journalist and a 2011 Alicia Patterson fellow. A contributing editor for High Country News, she has also written for Smithsonian, National Geographic, and the Atlantic.

“Why’s this so good?” No. 12: Ian Frazier digs into piggery

Environmental journalists often feel married to the tragic narrative. Pollution, extinction, invasion: The stories are endless, and endlessly the same. Our editors see the pattern and bury us in the…

September 20, 2011