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James Dinneen is environment reporter at New Scientist US. He grew up in Colorado, where he studied history and philosophy at Colorado College. After stints as a ranch hand in Idaho, a dramaturg in California, and a cook and corn picker in Massachusetts, he started working as a freelance journalist covering science, environment and other curiosities. His writing has been published in Science, National Geographic, The Boston Globe, Scientific American, Undark, Discover, Yale E360, Wired, bioGraphic and Smithsonian, among other publications.
His investigation for Undark on aging dam infrastructure was a 2022 National Magazine Award finalist and won the American Society of Journalists and Authors award for investigative journalism. He has a master's in science writing from MIT. He likes maps.
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