Delger Erdenesanaa

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Environmental journalist ~ currently a climate reporting fellow at The New York Times ~ formerly at the Texas Observer and Inside Climate News

Work highlights: www.delgererdenesanaa.com

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ICYMI last Friday, the annual WMO climate report for Latin America and the Caribbean detailed a costly string of extremes--flooding, heat, fire--that killed thousands and spread misery in the regions. insideclimatenews.org/news/1105202...

Climate Extremes Slammed Latin America and the Caribbean Last Year. A New UN Report Details the Impacts and Costs - Inside Climate Newsinsideclimatenews.org Some scientists in the region said many of the effects seen today weren’t expected until the second half of the century.

Astronomers, who know better than anyone how rare and fragile Earth's atmosphere is, are increasingly becoming climate scientists and activists. (Wrote this with my colleague Katrina Miller, who covers space and physics!) 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2024/05/14/s...

Alarmed by Climate Change, Astronomers Train Their Sights on Earthwww.nytimes.com A growing number of researchers in the field are using their expertise to fight the climate crisis.

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Quick summary of ocean records in the NY Times www.nytimes.com/2024/04/10/c...

Ocean Heat Has Shattered Records for More Than a Year. What’s Happening?www.nytimes.com There have been record temperatures every day for more than a year. Scientists are investigating what’s behind the extraordinary measurements.

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It’s getting a little ridiculous how much better NYC tap water is than any other city’s in the country. LA’s tastes like 2% milk. DC’s has distinct notes of Scrubbing Bubbles.

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“There were clear fire seasons for Texas in the past, but fires have become a year-round threat,” said Yongqiang Liu, a meteorologist at the U.S. Forest Service’s Southern Research Station. www.nytimes.com/2024/02/29/c...

Climate Change Is Raising Texas’ Already High Wildfire Riskswww.nytimes.com The Smokehouse Creek fire is a sign of more to come. Property insurers in Texas are already responding.

There is nobody else reporting on political extremism in Texas like Steven is -- support his work!

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Hire Kit! They have literally all the skills you could want in a journalist: relentless reporting, stylish writing, careful editing and big-picture, forward-thinking ideas on how to make newsrooms work better.

I've been laid off today from @texasobserver.org, along with two other key members of the editors team, Gabriel Arana and Gayle Reaves. I'll try to be more active here, or you can find me on Mastodon. I appreciate boosts, job tips and story leads, and thanks in advance for your support.

The Smokehouse Creek fire in the Texas Panhandle is now the biggest ever recorded in the state. In case you're wondering, here's the climate change context on wildfires in Texas, and future risks: www.nytimes.com/2024/02/29/c...

Climate Change Is Raising Texas’ Already High Wildfire Riskswww.nytimes.com The Smokehouse Creek fire is a sign of more to come. Property insurers in Texas are already responding.

Do you want to see what polar bears get up to when the sea ice melts and they move onto land? Incredibly cool bear's-eye view videos collected for a new scientific study show the polar bears are surprisingly active! (And hungry...) 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2024/02/13/c...

Is That Polar Bear Getting Enough to Eat? Try a Collar With a Camera.www.nytimes.com Scientists collected video from 20 bears during ice-free months to understand whether the animals can survive longer periods on land in a warming world.

Climate scientist @michaelemann.bsky.social, one of the ppl behind the famous hockey stick graph of global warming, just won his lawsuit over defamatory blog posts from way back in 2012. “This is a victory for science and it’s a victory for scientists,” he said. 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2024/02/08/c...

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Climate scientist Michael Mann's decade-old libel lawsuit against two conservative writers is finally being heard in court. The trial is expected to close tomorrow. In the meantime, his case illuminates broader shifts in the online discourse about climate change: www.nytimes.com/2024/02/06/c...

The Changing Focus of Climate Denial: From Science to Scientistswww.nytimes.com The scientist Michael Mann is challenging attacks on his work in a defamation suit that’s taken 12 years to come to trial.

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A new study used data from 170,000 groundwater monitoring wells worldwide and found widespread depletion, but also interesting case studies where levels are slowing or recovering www.nytimes.com/2024/01/24/c... w/ @edelger.bsky.social!

Where Groundwater Levels Are Falling, and Rising, Worldwidewww.nytimes.com Data from more than 1,000 aquifers reveal widespread decline, but improvement in some places shows the trend can be reversed.

Out of scores of climate papers I read this year, this might be the coolest... and most troubling? Turns out the genes of Southern Ocean octopus populations show that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapsed 120,000 years ago at temperatures like today's 🧪 😬 www.nytimes.com/2023/12/21/c...

This Antarctic Octopus Has a Warning About Rising Sea Levelswww.nytimes.com A huge ice sheet appears to have melted about 120,000 years ago, when temperatures were similar to those on Earth today, according to a DNA study that mapped octopus movements.

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“There’s a lot wrapped up in it when you let yourself process what that means, to be in the presence of something that is almost gone from the planet.” Following the long journey of a species from its last appearance, to finally being marked extinct:

Going Extinct in Texaswww.texasobserver.org The path to getting a species declared extinct is longer than you might think. From Fall 2023 Fellow Paula Levihn-Coon.

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Your Friday read from NYT Climate: Protecting forests helps fight climate change. A new sensor in space lets us see how much.

How Much Can Forests Fight Climate Change? A Sensor in Space Has Answers.www.nytimes.com A new NASA program is helping researchers more accurately calculate how much planet-warming carbon protected areas are storing. It’s a lot.

Ongoing extreme rain and floods in East Africa have killed at least 300 people and displaced millions. Scientists say that climate change has doubled the amount of rain that would normally fall in the region at this time of year. www.nytimes.com/2023/12/07/c...

Climate Change Makes East Africa’s Deadly Floods Worse, Study Findswww.nytimes.com The extreme rain and flooding in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia this fall has been made twice as intense by climate change, according to a new study.

I took a break from my regular programming of rising CO2 levels and temperatures to write about very cool new research 🧪 — scientists can now forecast whale and sea turtles locations up to a year in advance, and help fishermen avoid them. www.nytimes.com/2023/12/05/c...

A Whale Forecast for Fishermenwww.nytimes.com Scientists can now use climate data to predict whale and sea turtle locations months in advance, helping fishing fleets avoid conflicts with wildlife.

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Come for my favorite visual of our groundwater series yet — stay for Chris Flavelle's essential reporting on the actual (human) power brokers fighting against conservation efforts. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Incredible photojournalism from my colleague Jordan Vonderhaar, on the dangerous freight train journey some migrant families make through Mexico

Photo Essay: Forty miles south of Ciudad Juárez, protected from the glaring desert sun by a blanket tied to a ladder, a mother nurses her nine-month-old son as the sun rises on their fifth day aboard the train known as the beast. Braving 'La Bestia' ... Featuring one of TIME's top photos of 2023.

Braving 'La Bestia'www.texasobserver.org Asylum-seekers risk life and limb to reach America as President Biden tries to dissuade them. Includes one of TIME's Top 100 photos of 2023.

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Went on a deep, chart-filled dive into how electricity is changing around the world. The climate stakes are enormous. Read the piece + browse lots of countries' trends here:

How Electricity Is Changing Around the Worldwww.nytimes.com Renewable electricity is rising quickly, but the world’s power mix remains fossil fuel-heavy — for now.

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Wrote about a new study that finds grassland and shrubland fires are more widespread and destructive across the United States than forest fires. There should be a Smokey The Bear for grasses & shrubs …

America’s New Wildfire Risk Goes Beyond Forestswww.nytimes.com Grassland and shrubland fires burn more land and destroy more homes across the United States than forest fires, a new study found.

Two new studies on the state of Greenland's ice cover dropped this week — both reveal a clear shift to faster melting and instability since the turn of the century. We can't put numbers yet on what this means for sea level rise, but it's not good! www.nytimes.com/2023/11/09/c...

Two Studies on Greenland Reveal Ominous Signs for Sea Level Risewww.nytimes.com Some glaciers on the island are melting at double the rate of just a few decades ago.

In discussing his controversial new study, James Hansen declared today that "the 1.5 limit is deader than a doornail." Most scientists agree on that point, but take issue with his other findings. I wrote about how that disagreement... maybe doesn't matter?? www.nytimes.com/2023/11/02/c...

35 Years After Addressing Congress, James Hansen Still Has Climate Warningswww.nytimes.com The former NASA scientist James Hansen says in a new paper that global temperatures will pass a major milestone this decade, faster than other estimates predict.

50 shades of groundwater regulation (or what my colleague Dionne Searcey and I found after nagging state officials for months about how — and even whether — they protect their aquifers from overuse) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A Tangle of Rules to Protect America’s Water Is Falling Shortwww.nytimes.com The Times asked all 50 states how they police the use of valuable groundwater. Their answers reveal why the country is draining and damaging its aquifers so rapidly.

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When Maine lawmakers tried to tighten regulations on large-scale access to water, Poland Spring's little-known parent company set out to rewrite the rules. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

There's a new study out today about hurricanes in the Atlantic: they're more furious, more fast (courtesy of the ocean heating up) www.nytimes.com/2023/10/19/c...

Atlantic Hurricanes Are Getting Stronger, Faster, Study Findswww.nytimes.com The chance that a storm will get much more dangerous in less than a day has more than doubled over the past few decades.

For those of us Luddites who have been avoiding learning about AI so far... we probably should, if only because of its astronomic electricity demand. Here's a look at an interesting (early! caveats!) analysis today on how much AI's power use could soon grow: www.nytimes.com/2023/10/10/c...

A.I. Could Soon Need as Much Electricity as an Entire Countrywww.nytimes.com Behind the scenes, the technology relies on thousands of specialized computer chips.

About that super low Antarctic sea ice :( www.nytimes.com/2023/10/04/c...

Where’s All the Antarctic Sea Ice? Annual Peak Is the Lowest Ever Recorded.www.nytimes.com Earlier this year it was clear Antarctic sea ice levels were low. Now, as the continent enters spring, it’s obvious that “it’s a really exceptional year.”

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The Mississippi’s current is typically strong enough to prevent seawater from moving upriver. But it’s a challenge that gets harder each year as global warming causes sea level in the Gulf to rise, while coastal subsidence causes the riverbed to sink. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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