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Christina Last

@last_christina

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@USUKFulbright Fellow | @UNICEFinnovate Venture fund | @BritSchoolsUnis Winner | @mitlegatum Fellow

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As global warming increases, seasonal and man-made fires are threatening Africa’s rainforests, which are among the biggest carbon sinks in the world. Reclusive forest elephants might be part of the solution, writes Tom Brown for New Lines Magazine. newlinesmag.com/reportage/fire…

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As global warming increases, seasonal and man-made fires are threatening Africa’s rainforests, which are among the biggest carbon sinks in the world. Reclusive forest elephants might be part of the solution, writes Tom Brown newlinesmag.com/reportage/fire…

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Read my latest in the Guardian, how oil and gas companies are using "enclosed flares" to conceal flaring, a harmful pollutant which releases CO2 and methane:

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Oil and gas companies are hiding their emissions with the help of new technology. Tom Brown and Christina Last dig into how this could make tracking the environmental impact of burning off gas much harder to assess in the future.

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#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…

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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

Congratulations again to <a href="/Journo_TomBrown/">Tom Brown</a> <a href="/StellaMartany/">Stella Martany ܣܬܝܠܐ ܡܵܪܬܵܢܝ</a> <a href="/AlannahTravers/">alannah travers</a> <a href="/last_christina/">Christina Last</a> and <a href="/kuangkeng/">Kuang Keng Kuek Ser</a>, 2nd prize winners in the Excellence in Environmental Journalism category of the 2023 #FetisovJournalismAwards! 👏

Learn more about the winning story: tinyurl.com/43fzdmyc
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🗞️ 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…

🗞️ This month <a href="/EmiBarbiroglio/">Emanuela Barbiroglio</a>‘s #Climate press review with @DisplayEurope looks at fear, doubt &amp; 'climate doomerism', &amp; how to keep fighting for the #environment 🌱 when all seems lost.  Quotes from <a href="/dpcarrington/">Damian Carrington</a> <a href="/guardian/">The Guardian</a> <a href="/CFigueres/">Christiana Figueres</a> voxeurop.eu/en/climate-cha…
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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

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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.

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 <a href="/Earthworks/">Earthworks</a> .

MIT data scientists Christina Last and I had been building a pipeline to analyse the licences.
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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.

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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.

<a href="/Earthworks/">Earthworks</a> 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.
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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

<a href="/Earthworks/">Earthworks</a> 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
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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.

<a href="/Earthworks/">Earthworks</a> 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.
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This is a misrepresentation of the exascale project. The design of Europe’s Jupiter project shows that exascale supports all types of research. We’ve heard from multiple people close to the previous compute strategy that this was the case in the UK - govt is hiding behind a lack

This is a misrepresentation of the exascale project. The design of Europe’s Jupiter project shows that exascale supports all types of research. We’ve heard from multiple people close to the previous compute strategy that this was the case in the UK - govt is hiding behind a lack
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⚡️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