About the Author
A veteran conflict and environmental journalist,
Peter Annin spent more than a decade reporting on a wide variety of
issues for Newsweek. For
many years he specialized in coverage of domestic terrorism. He also
covered droughts in the Southwest, hurricanes in the Southeast, wind
power on the Great Plains, forest fires in the mountain West, as well
as the "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico. Since January 2000
he has worked as Associate Director of the Institutes for Journalism
and Natural Resources, a nonpartisan national nonprofit that organizes
educational fellowships for mid-career environmental journalists. www.ijnr.org
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