Mira Rojanasakul

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Mira Rojanasakul

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Data / Visual Journalist @ NYT Climate
https://www.nytimes.com/by/mira-rojanasakul
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JD Vance has talked about emulating authoritarian Orban's gutting of academic freedom in Hungary open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
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The environmental costs of farmed shrimp are wide ranging Western Mexico’s rapidly expanding shrimp farms, many of which are illegal, are contributing to the deforestation of the Pacific coast’s mangroves, an important habitat for jaguars:
Shrimp farms threaten Mexico’s mangroves and the jaguars that inhabit themnews.mongabay.com Among the spindly saline roots of the mangrove trees that line western Mexico’s coast, the jaguar is the ecosystem’s apex predator. Yet despite being at the top of the food chain, its existence is thr...
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Home insurance costs are surging, and for the first time, new data makes it possible to see what households really pay across the United States. Private insurers don't disclose what they charge, so researchers found a workaround through mortgage escrow data. 🎁: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Home Insurance Rates in America Are Wildly Distorted. Here’s Why.www.nytimes.com Climate change is driving rates higher, but not always in areas with the greatest risk.
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How accurate is the weather forecast in your city? Niko Kommenda and I learned that NWS just began doing gridded assessments of forecast accuracy. We got the data and mapped of how many days into the future they get within 3°F of the observed high temp. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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** watched a netflix documentary once and now I've been streaming Tour de France stage 3 for 5 hours **
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My colleagues counted cars to see how much congestion pricing might've made this morning (about $200,000) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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🗳️🇫🇷 Depuis l’élection d’Emmanuel Macron en 2017, l’extrême droite a plus que doublé son score dans 83 % des communes françaises 📈 Avec @mariepastora.bsky.social et Michael Ovaska, on a passé la nuit à analyser la percée historique du Rassemblement National ⤵️ www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Eleven years ago, SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act in #ShelbyCounty, arguing that "things have changed" since the 1960s. Today, we know that things have changed since this ruling: namely, that the turnout gap exploded in formerly-covered places 1/n www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
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ɢᴇᴛ ᴍᴇ ᴏᴜᴛ ᴏꜰ ʜᴇʀᴇ
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“Israeli army forces strapped a wounded Palestinian man to the hood of a military Jeep during an arrest raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Saturday. A video showed a Palestinian resident of Jenin, Mujahed Azmi, on the Jeep that passes two ambulances.”
Israeli forces strap wounded Palestinian man to hood of military jeepapple.news Verified video shows Jenin resident Mujahed Azmi on vehicle that passes two ambulances during raid
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Contender for favorite chart of all time: Predictions vs. Reality for solar energy.
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‘There Is No Plan B to Fund the MTA’ // Confusion and fury (and Andy Byford) at MTA headquarters as the congestion-pricing news came down. -- www.curbed.com/article/cong...
‘There Is No Plan B to Fund the MTA’www.curbed.com Confusion and fury (and Andy Byford) at MTA headquarters as the congestion-pricing news came down.
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making exploratory charts into the void
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I spend months using satellites to trace what years of war have done to settlements in Ukraine. I found about 210,000 damaged or destroyed buildings, many of them protected under the Geneva Conventions t.co/q3bpXlAKwM this is the grim picture of what Ukraine has lost.
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The bomb used by Israel in the tent city attack in Rafah was made by Boeing:
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Heads, I Win; Tails, You Cheat: Trump has already cast doubt about the fairness of the 2024 election hundreds of times, essentially setting up a no-lose future for himself: Either he wins, or the election will be "rigged." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Trump’s Pattern of Sowing Election Doubt Intensifies in 2024www.nytimes.com A false, familiar claim by the former president — that the contest in which he’s participating is “rigged” — has reached a fever pitch in this cycle.
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So I just lived through this. If you own a home, you're (most likely) going to have to endure it, too. It's the most boring horror story possible -- all about paperwork, but with utterly terrifying consequences. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
As Insurers Around the U.S. Bleed Cash From Climate Shocks, Homeowners Losewww.nytimes.com It’s not just California and Florida now: Insurers are losing money around the country. It means higher rates and, sometimes, cancellation notices.
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As the insurance industry contends with losses from climate shocks, inflation and rising replacement costs, homeowners are left facing soaring premiums and deductibles — if they can still find coverage at all. 🎁 link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
As Insurers Around the U.S. Bleed Cash From Climate Shocks, Homeowners Losewww.nytimes.com It’s not just California and Florida now: Insurers are losing money around the country. It means higher rates and, sometimes, cancellation notices.
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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.