Mira Rojanasakul

1 day ago | nytimes.com | Sachi Mulkey |Claire Brown |Mira Rojanasakul

Summer started barely a week ago, and already the United States has been smothered in a record-breaking “heat dome.” Alaska saw its first-ever heat advisory this month. And all of this comes on the heels of 2024, the hottest calendar year in recorded history. The world is getting hotter, faster. A report published last week found that human-caused global warming is now increasing by 0.27 degrees Celsius per decade. That rate was recorded at 0.2 degrees in the 1970s, and has been growing since.

2 days ago | nytimes.com | Mira Rojanasakul

Set on a quiet hillside in West Virginia, a series of cascading ponds are doing their small part to fix a big problem. A photo of three ponds of different hues in the clearing of a forested hillside. Water saturated with heavy metals and as corrosive as stomach acid, the result of decades of coal mining, flows into the ponds. Animated arrows on top of the same photo illustrate acid mine runoff moving down the hillside and collecting in the upper pond.

1 month ago | estadao.com.br | Mira Rojanasakul

Com a crise climática, oceano pode engolir áreas urbanas nas próximas décadasUma nova análise dos 28 maiores centros populacionais dos Estados Unidos descobriu que todos - exceto três - estão afundando, e em muitos casos significativamente. Várias das áreas mais afetadas estão no Texas, particularmente ao redor de Fort Worth e Houston. Mas o problema é nacional, afetando cidades tão espalhadas quanto Seattle, Detroit e Charlotte, na Carolina do Norte.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Mira Rojanasakul

A new analysis of America's 28 largest population centers found that all but three are sinking overall, and in many cases significantly. Several of the most affected areas are in Texas, particularly around Fort Worth and Houston. But the problem is nationwide, affecting cities as scattered as Seattle, Detroit and Charlotte, N.C.Sinking land, also called subsidence, can worsen the effects of sea-level rise, intensify flooding and strain the very foundations of urban infrastructure.

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Brad Plumer |Mira Rojanasakul

The moves include loosening environmental rules, but it is unclear how much they can help reverse the sharp decline in coal power over the last two decades. President Trump plans to sign an executive order Tuesday aimed at expanding the mining and use of coal in the United States, in an effort to revive the struggling industry.