"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

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?

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

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

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.

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

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.

I wrote about a mission to find a sunken B-52 at the bottom of the South China Sea, with help from robots https://t.co/OsAoql0vHQ

Reports of a sapphire discovery in Sri Lanka were packed with gleaming details. Some proved too good to be true, we discovered. https://t.co/jJtYQbrefM

“I feel kind of sorry for them about their fate," says the mascot expert @mondomascots

.@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.” https://t.co/ArwTb48ewz

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

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.

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.

.@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.

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.

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 https://t.co/fbF1eTGBvr @nytimesworld

Tragic

The judge granted a 30-day stay of the ruling at @AGRobBonta's request. Here's our @nytimes story

"The themes, if you ask me, speak to everyone," says an English teacher from Turkey who uses the sitcom in her classes @nytimes