When Mauna Loa started belching lava in Nov, humanity's longest-running direct record of atmospheric CO2 was thrown into crisis. Erin Schaff and I took a look at how the scientists behind the Keeling Curve are trying to get back on track. nytimes.com/2023/02/06/cli…

After 3+ weeks of storms in California, how is this water year stacking up against the wettest ones of the past seven decades? Statewide, it's well above average but not yet in uncharted territory. w/Mira Rojanasakul nytimes.com/2023/01/19/cli…

Before California’s latest atmospheric river blew ashore this weekend, Erin Schaff and I joined a crew that flew up to 45,000 feet above the Pacific to study the storm’s innards the best way we know how: by dropping sensors into it from the sky nytimes.com/2023/01/14/cli…

To cope with more severe storms, experts say California needs to follow the Dutch, and make room for its rivers to overflow. But that means buying—or taking—private land, which nobody is keen to do.

Great sharing a byline with ⁦Raymond Zhong⁩ nytimes.com/2023/01/05/cli…

For over a decade, a panel of experts has been deliberating on how, and whether, to update the official record of geologic time to include a momentous new age: our own.

My story on the Anthropocene debate, which may be entering its final stages. nytimes.com/2022/12/17/cli…

Countries don't emit greenhouse gases. Individual factories, power plants, ships and planes do. A new project is tracking them individually — 72,612 emitters and counting, a hyperlocal atlas of the human activities that are altering Earth's chemistry nytimes.com/2022/11/09/cli…

'Twitter’s communications team, which was almost entirely laid off, did not respond to a request for comment.' nytimes.com/2022/11/04/tec…

The story of the Netherlands' centuries of struggle against water is written all over its boggy landscape: windmills, dikes, canals. I crisscrossed the country to see how it is remaking itself from the ground up to confront the opposite threat: drought
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A remarkable investigation by my colleagues into Dr. Li Wenliang's final weeks on earth. New details about his hospital treatment, plus the full text of the self-criticism he was ordered to write. nytimes.com/2022/10/06/wor…

Scientists' first results are in: Global warming likely made Pakistan's floods more destructive. But they couldn't pin down how much more. nytimes.com/2022/09/15/cli…

Last week I wrote about scientists in California trying to improve the way we conduct prescribed burns to protect forests in a warming climate. Two days later, the Mosquito Fire put their methods to the test.

How well did they do? nytimes.com/2022/09/16/us/…

“especially in these highly vulnerable regions, small changes matter a lot.”

How anthropogenic warming makes human suffering worse.

Expect this to come up next week at UNGA and at climate talks in Egypt.

By ⁦Raymond Zhong⁩ nytimes.com/2022/09/15/cli…

With California entering the most dangerous part of the wildfire season, I wrote about a prescribed burn in the Sierras that I joined recently, to see how Tirtha Banerjee and other scientists are trying to bring forest management into the 21st century nytimes.com/2022/09/07/cli…

'I couldn’t believe what I was seeing,' he said. 'I felt like it was demonically inspired — like some otherworldly force was involved.' nytimes.com/2022/09/02/tec…

'I don't see highly talented U.S. workers competing for jobs in France or Singapore, unfortunately, because Americans are so resolutely monolingual.' washingtonpost.com/business/2022/…

Pakistan this spring began experiencing record-breaking, drought-intensifying heat which scientists concluded had been 30 times as likely to occur because of human-caused global warming. Now much of the country is underwater

Max Bearak Raymond Zhong & I report nytimes.com/2022/08/29/cli…

'This one will come from the sky'

For my first big project at NYT Climate, I helped visualize a devastating storm scenario based on new research by @xingyhuang and Dr. Daniel Swain, explained with stunning clarity by Raymond Zhong

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NEW: You've heard of the 'big one,' the giant earthquake that could devastate part of California. But there's also growing risk of a different history-making calamity, one whose fury would be felt across the entire state.
This one will come from the sky. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

'It would be like meeting another human the size of Mount Everest.' nytimes.com/2022/06/23/sci…

Ever wondered about that check box for offsetting your emissions when booking a flight? Maggie Astor has some lucid answers. nytimes.com/2022/05/18/cli…