Michelle Nijhuis

 

Michelle Nijhuis is an award-winning science journalist and regular contributor to Smithsonian Magazine. She has also written for National Geographic, The Atlantic, the New York Times and Nature.

Suffragist Rosalie Barrow Edge founded the world's first refuge for birds of prey.

How Mrs. Edge Saved the Birds

Meet a forgotten hero of our natural world whose brave campaign to protect birds charted a new course for the environmental movement

The research vessel in December, two months after mooring to an ice floe nicknamed “the Fortress.”

Why the MOSAiC Expedition's Research Is So Vital to Climate Change Research

On a ship frozen in the Arctic, scientists have spent all winter to shed light on exactly how the world is changing

A large colony of Mexican free-tailed bats can consume an estimated 250 tons of insects in a single night.

These Bats Use Sonar to Jam the Signals of Their Rivals

How hungry Mexican free-tails sabotage the competition

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Tribal Talk

Immersion schools try to revive and preserve Native American languages

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