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The Warning We Can’t (and yet do) Ignore Watch now | A deadly runway collision at LaGuardia underscores what the system has been trying to tell us.

A deadly runway collision at LaGuardia is more than an accident—it’s a warning about the limits of an overstretched aviation system.

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The White Bird: Time to Solve the Mystery In the final chapter of this three-part series, Miles O’Brien and aviation historian Ric Gillespie examine the physical evidence suggesting that the lost French aircraft L’Oiseau Blanc may lie beneath...

A century-old aviation mystery may finally be within reach.

In Part 3 of Miles Ahead, we follow the evidence to a remote pond in Newfoundland—and make a push to solve the fate of the White Bird before 2027.

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Black Box Revisited: The Deadliest Single Plane Crash- Part 1 Listen now (35 mins) | A return to Japan Airlines Flight 123 — a story of failure, humanity, and the thin line between routine and catastrophe

Revisiting one of the most haunting aviation stories I’ve ever covered: Japan Airlines Flight 123 — the deadliest single-aircraft crash in history.

#JAL123 #AviationSafety #BlackBox #AviationHistory

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The White Bird Mystery Deepens New evidence suggests the lost French transatlantic flight may have reached Newfoundland

Two weeks before Lindbergh, two French aviators may have already crossed the Atlantic.

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The Grid Meets the AI Boom A Texas coal plant, a solar gamble—and the race to power the digital future

The U.S. power demand boom is here. AI, data centers, rising costs—and one Texas coal plant planning a solar future. My latest story for PBS NewsHour.

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The Hunt for the White Bird Begins A new Miles Ahead podcast series revisits aviation’s greatest unsolved mystery

First of a special three-part series investigating the most important unsolved aviation mystery of all time. open.substack.com/pub/milesobr...

NASA Just Reset Artemis. That’s Not a Retreat — It’s a Reality Check. NASA has reshuffled its return-to-the-Moon strategy.

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Looks like a rollback is brewing for Artemis II. March launch windows would close, but if they do it soon, they preserve April options.

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Land Ho! Fifty-five days after shoving off, we see the beautiful cliffs of New Zealand - and smell the fertile turf.

Land Ho! Fifty-five days after shoving off for Antarctica. What an adventure.

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80,000 Students, One Icebreaker, and the Science Beneath Antarctica From the Southern Ocean, scientists revealed how hidden ocean heat is reshaping the “Doomsday Glacier”—and why the answers matter far beyond Antarctica.

From an Antarctic icebreaker, scientists connected live with 80,000 students worldwide to explain how hidden ocean heat is reshaping the “Doomsday Glacier”—and why it matters everywhere.
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From Ted Turner to TikTok: The Rise and Fall of Science Journalism—and What Comes Next Speaking from Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier, a conversation for Breaking the News traces how CNN helped shape today’s fractured media landscape—and why rebuilding trust in science storytelling may be

Speaking live from Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier, Miles O’Brien reflects on CNN, the collapse of science journalism, and a new project tracing the roots of today’s fractured media landscape.

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Failure, Data, and the Slow Truth of Thwaites Even when the drilling stops, the science—and the stakes—keep moving beneath Antarctica’s most consequential glacier

A failed drill, rare new data, and the slow race to understand Antarctica’s most consequential glacier—my companion essay to tonight’s PBS NewsHour report from Thwaites.
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At the Edge of the Ice, and Time A live conversation from Antarctica reveals what we learned—and what we still don’t know—about the fate of the Doomsday Glacier

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When the Ice Wins A live Q&A from the Southern Ocean today (Feb 10) at 4 PM EST

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A Hole in the Ice, a Hard Stop and a Hard Truth At Thwaites Glacier, scientists reach the ocean below—only to watch their biggest hope freeze out of reach

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A Hole in the Ice, a Hard Stop and a Hard Truth At Thwaites Glacier, scientists reach the ocean below—only to watch their biggest hope freeze out of reach

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A Hard Stop at Thwaites Warm water confirmed beneath the glacier—but the long-term measurements slip away

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Through the Ice at Thwaites After nearly a full day of drilling, scientists finally reach the hidden ocean beneath Antarctica’s most consequential glacier

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Live from Thwaites for PBS News An Antarctic drilling race, a vanishing window for science, and a first-of-its-kind broadcast from the bottom of the world

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I Still See the Sky: Challenger, Forty Years On From a frozen Florida morning to the loss of two shuttles and fourteen astronauts, a reporter reflects on what silence inside a system can cost.

I still see the “Y” in the sky. From Challenger in 1986 to Columbia in 2003, this is my account of what happens when near-misses become normal—and why spaceflight will never be routine.
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Twenty Tons of Snow and a Week to Drill the Bottom of the World A walk through the Thwaites Glacier drill camp—where a ten-person team races the weather, the ice, and the clock to reach the ocean beneath Antarctica.

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