Dean Napolitano
Staff Editor @nytimes.com in Hong Kong | Oxford Climate Journalism Network alum | HKUniversity alum | Ex-WSJ, Nikkei Asia | sopasia.com judge | 🌏🌍🌎
- Deep Inside an Antarctic Glacier, a Mission Collapses at Its Final Step --- Scientists lost their instruments within Antarctica’s most dangerously unstable glacier, though not before getting a glimpse at the warming waters underneath. By @zhonggg.bsky.social in @nytimes.com 1/4
- "A daring attempt to study Antarctica’s fast-melting Thwaites Glacier collapsed over the weekend after the scientists’ instruments became entombed within the half-mile-thick ice." By @zhonggg.bsky.social 2/4
- "A team of British and South Korean researchers was trying to install instruments beneath the immense glacier, where they would collect data, the first of its kind, on the warm ocean waters that are melting away the ice at a rate of hundreds of feet per year." By @zhonggg.bsky.social 3/4
- "Scientists fear that if Thwaites sheds too much ice, it could cause more of the vast West Antarctic ice sheet to start sliding rapidly into the sea, swamping coastal communities worldwide with as much as 15 feet of extra water over the coming centuries." By @zhonggg.bsky.social 4/4
- Climate Change Is Fueling Extremes, Both Hot and Cold The possibility of snow in Tampa, Fla. Record heat and fires in Australia. Scientists say climate change is exacerbating weather extremes. By David Gelles in @nytimes.com 1/4
- On a typical winter day, the Arctic air that has gripped much of the United States this week should be a few thousand miles to the north, sitting atop the North Pole. By David Gelles in @nytimes.com 2/4
- But as man-made climate change continues to disrupt global weather patterns, that mass of cold air, known as the polar vortex, is straying beyond its usual confines. By David Gelles in @nytimes.com 3/4
- The escaped polar vortex is just one instance of extreme weather playing out right now around the world. With so much cold air much farther south than usual, typically frigid regions have become relatively balmy. By David Gelles in @nytimes.com 4/4
- Today's unanticipated nature today, by Michael R. Blood of the @apnews.com
