Mira Rojanasakul joins The New York Times Climate desk

Mira Rojanasakul

I am delighted to announce that Mira Rojanasakul will be joining The New York Times Climate desk as a graphics editor reporting and creating visual stories.

Mira comes to The Times from Bloomberg, where she has worked on the graphics desk for eight years, covering climate change, elections, international politics and financial investigations. Much of her work there involved connecting the dots between long-term climate trends and extreme weather events to help readers navigate a rapidly changing environment.

With the news of 2021 recorded as one of the hottest years in history, Mira published a visual explanation of how global trends translate to record-breaking heat waves. During hurricane season, she tracked hurricane trends and showed readers how warming waters fuel storms. She also investigated FEMA’s outdated flood risk maps and revealed how federal maps dangerously underestimate climate risk in many communities.

On The Times’s Climate desk, Mira will work closely with Nadja Popovich, who has led memorable and innovative visual work like “How Much Hotter Is Your Hometown Than When You Were Born?” Together, Nadja and Mira will continue to grow the Climate Desk’s reputation as a visual powerhouse.

“Mira is one of the most creative graphics reporters around today,” Nadja said. “I’m excited to collaborate with her to bring more climate stories into visual focus for our readers.”

Mira grew up in Morgantown, W.Va., and studied fine art and international politics at Carleton College in Minnesota, where she learned a lot about the power of maps. She continued exploring aesthetics of information during a residency at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts before moving to New York City to pursue an M.F.A. in graphic design at the Pratt Institute.

She will join the Climate desk on June 13.