Mike Ives

I wrote about a Galápagos volcano that produced a lava trail so long and bright it was visible from space. The eruption "was very, very difficult to miss," a videographer told me from Ecuador. @nytimesworld @NYTScience https://t.co/C4aQsjhksz

Eastern Massachusetts will likely be the “bull's-eye” of the snowstorm sweeping up the East Coast this morning, the National Weather Service told me. @nytimes will have live coverage. https://t.co/cb0X3VSgOX

RT @MujMash: We lost our great editor, Carlos Tejada, suddenly yesterday. We’re all devastated — this life thing is so fragile, so unpredic…

Zara Rutherford, 19, is flying around the world in a tiny plane. “She does have a bit of experience, but what she’s doing is really, really, really brave,” a pilot said. https://t.co/bRWsrzZ9Yq

I wrote about a mission to find a sunken B-52 at the bottom of the South China Sea, with help from robots https://t.co/OsAoql0vHQ

Reports of a sapphire discovery in Sri Lanka were packed with gleaming details. Some proved too good to be true, we discovered. https://t.co/jJtYQbrefM

“I feel kind of sorry for them about their fate," says the mascot expert @mondomascots https://t.co/ArwTb48ewz

.@hikarimaehida and I explain why the reaction to Tokyo's Olympic mascots has been rather meh. “They seem to be functional. They seem to be doing a good job,” an expert on Japanese mascots told me. “But there doesn’t seem to be a lot of passion for them.” https://t.co/ArwTb48ewz

It's really, really hot in a lot of places, so I took a closer look at how temperature records are formally vetted. Hundreds from the U.S. alone "would not survive a re-analysis,” @DrJeffMasters told me https://t.co/TWagrquXFR

Ever wondered where your weed came from ... in an archaeobotanical sense? I wrote about a new study that suggests all existing strains of cannabis come from an “ancestral gene pool” in East Asia. https://t.co/3oEMqNamhM

We're covering a blast in northern Pakistan today that officials say killed at least nine Chinese nationals. At least some were engineers working at a hydroelectric project. Story will be updated. https://t.co/vXmdFp0haU

.@HikariHidaka and I wrote about a digital cat on a Tokyo billboard that has sparked joy on social media. It behaves a bit like an actual cat, in that it does whatever it pleases. https://t.co/fptZKojWsJ

RT @nytimesworld: Police officials in Karachi, Pakistan, say that a brigade of officers who patrol on inline skates has been a success. Cri…

The Maldives was short on nurses during a Covid surge so it sent volunteers to care for patients who couldn't receive visitors. "We were their family, and I saw them that way, too," one volunteer told @MaahilMohamed https://t.co/fbF1eTGBvr @nytimesworld

Tragic https://t.co/rCfrwOu9tW

The judge granted a 30-day stay of the ruling at @AGRobBonta's request. Here's our @nytimes story https://t.co/LhArEiZn0W

"The themes, if you ask me, speak to everyone," says an English teacher from Turkey who uses the sitcom in her classes @nytimes https://t.co/Bo7Q0N3Mc4