Covering the geopolitics of climate change @nytimes. Previously based in Kyiv, Nairobi, DC, Mumbai, Delhi. Open DMs. IG: @instabearak

Joined February 2014
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14 Sep 2022
🚨EXCLUSIVE: Yvon Chouinard, who founded the outdoor apparel maker Patagonia and became a reluctant billionaire with his unconventional spin on capitalism, has given away the company. All Patagonia’s profits will now be used to fight climate change.🧵 nytimes.com/2022/09/14/clima…
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Pakistan this spring began experiencing record-breaking, drought-intensifying heat which scientists concluded had been 30 times as likely to occur because of human-caused global warming. Now much of the country is underwater @maxbearak @zhonggg & I report nytimes.com/2022/08/29/clima…
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21 Jul 2022
Friends, I have a new job @nytimes: "to examine the levers of power in global climate policy and go where the consequences of those decisions are most vividly playing out." It's urgent work, I think, and to do it well I'll need your tips/leads. Talk soon🙏 nytco.com/press/max-bearak-i…
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On Feb. 26, after a Russian strike, we found someone's lost family photos scattered on the ground outside their destroyed apartment in Kyiv. We picked them up — hoping to return them to their owners. This month, we finally stumbled upon a clue. washingtonpost.com/world/202…
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12 Jun 2022
It was a perfect summer day, puffy white clouds reflecting off the calm lake, the air shimmering with heat. The temptation to dive in? Irresistible.
 But below the lake’s surface was an invisible danger. On dangers facing regular Ukrainians this summer: washingtonpost.com/world/202…
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11 Jun 2022
“It may shock your typical Western liberal activist, but when you witness war, your values change.” Ukraine’s LGBTQ activists are grappling with what war means in their own fight for equal rights — and finding reason for hope in new, unexpected alliances. washingtonpost.com/world/202…
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It's one thing to know Russia's on a scorched earth campaign in Donbas — and another entirely to see it hear it feel it in this harrowing piece by @siobhan_ogrady @NastyaGalouchka @Heidiphotos who came under relentless shelling while on an embed near Lyman washingtonpost.com/world/202…
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"This is as if someone came to your house, saw that everything is well and beautiful, and therefore shits on your white bed. They are jealous that we can do something.” Inside Chernobyl's looted laboratories, with @s_morgunov & @StrekKasia. washingtonpost.com/world/202…
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24 May 2022
"The border will never be the same:" As Russia builds up forces again along the border north of Kyiv, Ukraine's border guards are both wary and determined that they are now prepared for a reinvasion. With @s_morgunov & @StrekKasia in rural Chernihiv. washingtonpost.com/world/202…
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For me, the story of Sophia began on May 7, when a friend said that relatives were looking for a missing 13-year-old girl who was wounded because Russians shelled an evacuation convoy. @ikhurshudyan found Sofia and tells the story to the world. washingtonpost.com/world/202…
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«There was a time when #Ukraine’s traditional clothing, known for its intricate #embroidery, was so specialized that most villages had designs of their own. What people wore could identify where they were from». washingtonpost.com/world/202…
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19 May 2022
Among Ukraine's many heroes, Nataliia Zaretska stands out. She has one of the hardest jobs — healing the hidden wounds of Bucha's most psychologically scarred people, helping them win their inner wars. It's a privilege to share her story here: washingtonpost.com/world/202…
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Many other reporters will be there in spirit. Strength to @AlJazeera and @AJEnglish colleagues after this appalling loss. #JournalismIsNotACrime
Shireen’s funeral will get underway around 1415 Jerusalem time when her body will be taken to a church in the Old City before being buried next to her parents. We are expecting huge numbers to attend.
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Finland will today signal intent to join NATO. Here is how Putin’s war pushed the country to this point. washingtonpost.com/world/202…
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NEW: Ukrainian refugees being forced into Russia face systematic interrogations, detention and other abuses. Strip searches, "disappearances," Siberia. me @maryilyushina washingtonpost.com/world/202…
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