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Illegal marijuana farms pose wildfire risk in California: NBC News identified six wildfires on Forest Service and tribal land since 2009 caused by people working at illegal marijuana grows in remote forested areas nbcnews.com/news/us-news/f…

As oil companies carve up more of the rainforest, a new study says no place in the world uses more oil from beneath the Amazon than California. nbcnews.com/investigations…

NASA's cosmic time machine, the James Webb Space Telescope, is about to take us across the universe and back in time. Here’s how it will work. Incredible execution by many talented people to create something unlike anything we've done before NBC News 🚀 nbcnews.com/specials/webb-…

“Nobody really believed it was going to happen and nobody was prepared” — How high heat of 2021 drove catastrophic weather nbcnews.com/news/all/how-h… new from Monica Hersher

Beautiful map work by my colleague Jiachuan Wu

Few mask restrictions remain. On Jan. 28, 12 states required masks in some or all settings, but as of Tuesday only five, plus Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., still have any restrictions in place. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/m…

INTERACTIVE: Inside the sites targeted by Russia’s invasion nbcnews.com/specials/ukrai…

The landscape of vote-by-mail rules in the U.S., part of NBC News' brand-new nbcnews.com/planyourvote site

A pleasure working with @joemurph to dig into the complex world of economics. Seven countries have cut the Russian government off from almost half a trillion dollars, leaving the country unable to stabilize the value of the ruble. Experts say, life in Russia will get tough.

Thrilled that Plan Your Vaccine is nominated for The Webby Awards in "Public Service & Activism" for an app — it's among the top 12% of the over 14,000 projects entered from around the world! vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/…

Many teams NBC News came together to visualize the exodus of 11.4 million people. This is the result of data viz, video, photo and text in 1 nbcnews.com/specials/ukrai… Shout out to Monica Hersher Jiachuan Wu JoElla Carman Tom Vollkommer, Tristan Bresnen, @juliusmotal & Chelsea Stahl

Did you procrastinate on your taxes? You're in good company! @ChicagoEl with the stats

Most forest fires we want less of. Today we're talking about the ones we need more of. A long overdue data-driven investigation by the outstanding Adiel Kaplan and yours truly

A hot topic! But bad puns aside, a great explanation of an important issue by Denise Chow and Nigel Chiwaya. High heat is not just uncomfortable, it's dangerous.

Excited to have started a new gig with the New York Times Graphics team! Happy to be back knee deep in data and maps.

House bill aiming to improve transparency of wildfire hazardous fuel reduction reporting to the public was introduced this week, citing reporting by Monica Hersher, Joe Murphy and I. Late to share because I was on vacation. 🙃

A year ago, Adiel Kaplan and I sifted through a lot of data and documents. And today, a bill referencing our findings moved from subcommittee to the House floor for debate! Cool when code that used to be bopping around your computer actually goes out in the world to do things.

Here is the story as it appears in print today, starting on A1 with tremendous photos by Meridith Kohut. And a super helpful graphic by Monica Hersher