Christina Last
@last_christina
ML @MIT
@USUKFulbright Fellow | @UNICEFinnovate Venture fund | @BritSchoolsUnis Winner | @mitlegatum Fellow
Previously @mldcmu
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The winners for the 2023 #FetisovJournalismAwards have been announced! Learn more: fjawards.com/events/awards-… Huge congratulations to all the winners!💫👏🏆 Samik Kharel Jack Losh Júlia Nueno Christina Last alannah travers Stella Martany ܣܬܝܠܐ ܡܵܪܬܵܢܝ Marielba Núñez Carmen Victoria Hugh Kinsella Cunningham
#Methane Emissions From #Gas Flaring Being Hidden From Satellite Monitors #news #environment #climatechange #pollution Tom Brown and Christina Last report for The Guardian theguardian.com/environment/20…
Congratulations again to Tom Brown Stella Martany ܣܬܝܠܐ ܡܵܪܬܵܢܝ alannah travers Christina Last and Kuang Keng Kuek Ser, 2nd prize winners in the Excellence in Environmental Journalism category of the 2023 #FetisovJournalismAwards! 👏 Learn more about the winning story: tinyurl.com/43fzdmyc
🗞️ This month Emanuela Barbiroglio‘s #Climate press review with @DisplayEurope looks at fear, doubt & 'climate doomerism', & how to keep fighting for the #environment 🌱 when all seems lost. Quotes from Damian Carrington The Guardian Christiana Figueres voxeurop.eu/en/climate-cha…
Proud to have contributed to this outstanding investigative piece in The Examination, documenting hydrogen sulphide (H2S) leaks from the oil and gas industry — a poisonous gas which has killed many workers and hospitalised families in Texas. Read here: tinyurl.com/3w6h9v94
After wrestling with this for some time, we managed to find partially handwritten H2S licences listing estimated H2S emissions, building on some excellent work done by Earthworks . MIT data scientists Christina Last and I had been building a pipeline to analyse the licences.
Earthworks In doing so, we found that hundreds and maybe thousands of ‘sour’ gas wells in Texas appeared to have been operating without a H-9 licence for years.
Earthworks Why is that important? Thousands of Texans have been living next to wells leaking gases with the potential to kill them, and neither the regulator nor the operator had any idea how much was being emitted. Similarly unregulated leaks in China killed hundreds of people in 2003.
Earthworks The Examination took this finding a step further and took on the time-consuming job of investigating the wells which had reported their emissions, calculating their H2S levels and even providing a map so Texans can look up if they live close to one: tinyurl.com/4utj3t2t
Earthworks Once the wells were identified, H2S monitors were set up around residents to measure the exposure. They found readings so high that analysts had to stay away for their own safety.
Congrats Tom Brown Christina Last Stella Martany ܣܬܝܠܐ ܡܵܪܬܵܢܝ alannah travers & Kuang Keng Kuek Ser on winning another award! Proud to support impactful environmental journalism through The Environmental Reporting Collective's grant programme. Read more here: chokingkurdistan.com
⚡️With just 2 weeks to go until the entry deadline for #FetisovJournalismAwards2024, get some inspiration from our incredible past winners Anna-Cat Brigida Stella Martany ܣܬܝܠܐ ܡܵܪܬܵܢܝ Tom Brown Claudia Smolansky Full interviews: youtube.com/playlist?list=… Apply now👉fjawards.com/how-to-enter