Mike Ives @mikeives

@nytimes writer [email protected] nytimes.com/by/mike-ives Seoul Joined October 2008

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Mike Ives @mikeives

3 years ago

"Unless you’re there, unless you capture it, no one would believe — could not even possibly imagine — what you’re witnessing," one photographer told me nytimes.com/2022/04/11/sci…

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Mike Ives @mikeives

4 years ago

With so much going wrong in the world, should we now also worry about a nine-tailed fox demoness that may be loose in a forest in Japan? nytimes.com/2022/03/18/wor…

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We explain how “Lunana” was made in a remote part of Bhutan, and later nominated for an Oscar. The director Ang Lee says the film is “very simple but very touching.” ⁦⁦@nytimesworld⁩ ⁦@TheAcademy⁩ nytimes.com/2022/02/12/wor…

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Mike Ives @mikeives

4 years ago

I wrote about a Galápagos volcano that produced a lava trail so long and bright it was visible from space. The eruption "was very, very difficult to miss," a videographer told me from Ecuador. @nytimesworld @NYTScience nytimes.com/2022/02/09/sci…

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Mike Ives @mikeives

4 years ago

Eastern Massachusetts will likely be the “bull's-eye” of the snowstorm sweeping up the East Coast this morning, the National Weather Service told me. @nytimes will have live coverage. nytimes.com/live/2022/01/2…

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Mujib Mashal @MujMash

4 years ago

We lost our great editor, Carlos Tejada, suddenly yesterday. We’re all devastated — this life thing is so fragile, so unpredictable. But this is how we like to remember him: this laughter tells you how he embraced life and all of us who were lucky to work with him on daily basis

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Mike Ives @mikeives

4 years ago

Zara Rutherford, 19, is flying around the world in a tiny plane. “She does have a bit of experience, but what she’s doing is really, really, really brave,” a pilot said. nytimes.com/2021/08/25/wor…

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Mike Ives @mikeives

4 years ago

I wrote about a mission to find a sunken B-52 at the bottom of the South China Sea, with help from robots nytimes.com/2021/08/01/wor…

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Mike Ives @mikeives

4 years ago

Reports of a sapphire discovery in Sri Lanka were packed with gleaming details. Some proved too good to be true, we discovered. nytimes.com/2021/07/29/wor…

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Mike Ives @mikeives

4 years ago

“I feel kind of sorry for them about their fate," says the mascot expert @mondomascots nytimes.com/2021/07/27/wor…

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Mike Ives @mikeives

4 years ago

.@hikarimaehida and I explain why the reaction to Tokyo's Olympic mascots has been rather meh. “They seem to be functional. They seem to be doing a good job,” an expert on Japanese mascots told me. “But there doesn’t seem to be a lot of passion for them.” nytimes.com/2021/07/27/wor…

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Mike Ives @mikeives

4 years ago

It's really, really hot in a lot of places, so I took a closer look at how temperature records are formally vetted. Hundreds from the U.S. alone "would not survive a re-analysis,” @DrJeffMasters told me nytimes.com/2021/07/22/cli…

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Mike Ives @mikeives

4 years ago

Ever wondered where your weed came from ... in an archaeobotanical sense? I wrote about a new study that suggests all existing strains of cannabis come from an “ancestral gene pool” in East Asia. nytimes.com/2021/07/18/sci…

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Mike Ives @mikeives

4 years ago

We're covering a blast in northern Pakistan today that officials say killed at least nine Chinese nationals. At least some were engineers working at a hydroelectric project. Story will be updated. nytimes.com/2021/07/14/wor…

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Mike Ives @mikeives

4 years ago

.@HikariHidaka and I wrote about a digital cat on a Tokyo billboard that has sparked joy on social media. It behaves a bit like an actual cat, in that it does whatever it pleases. nytimes.com/2021/07/08/wor…

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New York Times World @nytimesworld

4 years ago

Police officials in Karachi, Pakistan, say that a brigade of officers who patrol on inline skates has been a success. Critics call it a publicity stunt. nyti.ms/3qh3uQi

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Mike Ives @mikeives

4 years ago

The Maldives was short on nurses during a Covid surge so it sent volunteers to care for patients who couldn't receive visitors. "We were their family, and I saw them that way, too," one volunteer told @MaahilMohamed nytimes.com/2021/06/18/wor… @nytimesworld

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Mike Ives @mikeives

4 years ago

Tragic nytimes.com/2021/06/09/wor…

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Mike Ives @mikeives

4 years ago

The judge granted a 30-day stay of the ruling at @AGRobBonta's request. Here's our @nytimes story nytimes.com/2021/06/05/us/…

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Mike Ives @mikeives

4 years ago

"The themes, if you ask me, speak to everyone," says an English teacher from Turkey who uses the sitcom in her classes @nytimes nytimes.com/2021/05/29/art…