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Sachi Kitajima Mulkey

@sachimulkey.bsky.social

I'm a science reporter that covers climate and the environment. I am currently writing for the New York Times as a member of the 2025-26 fellowship class.

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Mira Rojanasakul @rjnskl.bsky.social · last mo.

At least 82 gas-burning plants are being built or have been proposed to power data centers — nearly half in Texas. Some are granted permits in DAYS. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/c...

A map of the United States, with small black dots representing the locations of proposed gas plants that will be used solely to power data centers. Most of the dots are also superimposed with rust-colored circles, which are sized based on the estimated capacity of the gas turbines proposed at each site. A large concentration of these plants are located in Texas, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Utah and Wyoming. A bar chart below the map, showing total capacity by state, reinforces this list of states. Total estimated capacity in Texas, alone, would exceed 70 gigawatts — over four times the total estimated capacity of the next state on the list.

Lyndsey Layton @lyndseylayton.bsky.social · 3mo ago

NEW: The Trump administration is poised to do what no other nation has: permit industrial mining of the ocean floor. Here's how that would work, from @harrystevens.bsky.social @sachimulkey.bsky.social and junho lee www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

See What Deep-Sea Mining Actually Looks Like, Over 2 Miles Down (Gift Article)

A mining company sent an advanced ship to try to vacuum up valuable minerals from the deep ocean. Here’s how it worked.

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Mira Rojanasakul @rjnskl.bsky.social · 6mo ago

How its going:

A chart showing the average snowpack at special measurement stations across the Colorado River Basin. Each line represents a single winter season, where snowpack typically peaks around March and April. The line for this year shows snowpack at historic lows.

Mira Rojanasakul@rjnskl.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Record heat is colliding with a snow drought across the Western United States, where snowpack accounts for much of the water supply 🎁 www.nytimes.com/interactive/... w/ @byscottdance.com & @sachimulkey.bsky.social

A map of the snowpack across the western United States compared to average snowpack for this time of the year. In nearly all, large swaths of the mountain ranges have less than a third of the normal snowpack for the year. Nearly all of the Colorado River Basin has below-average snow. Snowpack is below average in every western state except for parts of Wyoming, Idaho, Montana and Washington.

parkie-doo @parkie-doo.sh · last yr.

Easily the best part of my days is getting to use programming to lift up the outstanding reporting, design, illustration, and editorial work that goes into a piece like this. Couldn’t be prouder of this story—go read it! (Also, we save your place as you read, so take your time and savor it 🧡)

Grist@grist.org · last yr.

How the Klamath Dams Came Down. Last year, tribal nations in Oregon and California won a decades-long fight for the largest dam removal in U.S. history. This is their story. grist.org/project/indi... #Oregon #Tribe #Indigenous #CA #California #KlamathDam