Mira Rojanasakul

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Visual Journalist, NYT Climate
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Mira RojanasakulJan 22, 2025
The Washington PostJan 22, 2025

Trump officials pause health agencies’ communications, citing review
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/01/21/trump-hhs-cdc-fda-communication-pause/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Health @health-WashPost

Trump officials pause health agencies’ communications, citing review

The agencies are charged with making decisions that touch the lives of every American and are the source of crucial information to health-care providers.

The Washington Post
Mira RojanasakulSep 29, 2023

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.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/09/29/climate/new-orleans-saltwater-map.html

Map: When Will the Saltwater Wedge Reach New Orleans?

The drought-stricken Mississippi River can no longer hold back the saltwater creeping upstream, contaminating drinking water.

The New York Times
Mira RojanasakulAug 17, 2023
Daniel SwainAug 17, 2023
This is a genuinely remarkable map. It's widely know that global average temperatures broke records in July, but look how many individual locations (clustered mainly in subtropics, but also elsewhere) experienced all-time record breaking extreme heat last month . #ClimateChange https://t.co/sUfw6ui8Lj
World Climate Service on Twitter

“Locations with a new record monthly mean temperature (any month) observed in July 2023. The last month with a new all-time monthly cold record was January 2023 (Jiwani, Pakistan). Notes: GHCN-Monthly data, unadjusted (no homogenization), minimum 60 years of data”

Twitter
Mira RojanasakulAug 16, 2023
BillAug 16, 2023
NYC mapped the locations of its 6 million trees. My colleague Chris Whong put them all in a 3D interactive: https://chriswhong.github.io/nyc-trees-map/#17.06/40.673032/-73.970286/-16.7/67 #mapping #nyc #trees
NYC Tree Models

Mira RojanasakulJul 26, 2023
"just following up"
Mira RojanasakulJul 14, 2023
Pri BenganiJul 13, 2023

This graphic is incredible but so's this illustration (the typography) from 1912. (Also, the whole story.)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/att-verizon-lead-cables-telecom-5e329f9

​What AT&T and Verizon Knew About Toxic Lead Cables

For decades, telecom companies have known that lead in their networks posed risks to workers and could leach into the environment

WSJ
Mira RojanasakulJul 9, 2023
two millennial midlife crises collide
Mira RojanasakulJun 28, 2023
three concurrent RStudio sessions............ how did I get here
Mira RojanasakulJun 27, 2023
stress shopping for fig trees — this one is ominously named after spreadsheet software
Mira RojanasakulJun 12, 2023
still miss darksky!!