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Martina Igini

Hong Kong

Editor-in-Chief at Earth.org

Environmental Journalist 📍HK. Managing Editor @EarthOrg. Past: Global Communication @UN_Vienna. Alum: @univienna, @FU_Berlin, @CityUHongKong. Ocean lover🌊

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  • 2 days ago | earth.org | Martina Igini

    African countries grappled with unprecedented flooding, persistent droughts and water scarcity in 2024, the World Meteorological Organization said on Monday. —Human-made climate change is wreaking havoc across Africa, impacting every aspect of socio-economic development and exacerbating food and water insecurity, according to a new report.

  • 1 week ago | earth.org | Martina Igini

    At least 24 people died after a series of deadly storms across the southern and midwest US, with severe rains, flooding rivers and tornadoes triggering evacuation orders in several states. —The record-breaking rain that triggered flash flooding in the southern and Midwest US in early April were intensified by climate change, a new study has concluded.

  • 1 week ago | earth.org | Martina Igini

    Global temperatures stood at 14.96C in April, the second-hottest April ever recorded and the ninth consecutive month to breach the Paris Agreement’s threshold, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Thursday. —Global temperatures remained abnormally high last month, the second-hottest April globally. The global average temperature stood at 14.96C, 1.60C above the 1991-2020 average for April, according to data by the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S).

  • 1 week ago | earth.org | Martina Igini

    Two research bodies joined forces on collecting peer-reviewed research to support the Congress-mandated US National Climate Assessment days after the Trump administration dismissed its contributors. Two major US research organizations have stepped up after the Trump administration dismissed all the scientists working on an assessment of climate change in the US.

  • 2 weeks ago | earth.org | Martina Igini

    A new attribution study concluded that climate change doubled the likelihood of the hot, dry and windy conditions that fueled recent wildfires in South Korea. —The link between human-made climate change and increased extreme weather events like wildfires is “undeniable”, a researcher behind an attribution study on the recent wildfires in South Korea has said.

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Martina Igini
Martina Igini @Martina_Igini
19 Mar 25

RT @tomgrundy: 1/ Dozens of big tech, energy, and food firms – in and outside the US – are deleting climate promises, backtracking on susta…

Martina Igini
Martina Igini @Martina_Igini
17 Mar 25

Hong Kong's quadruple Olympic Medallist Siobhan Haughey is among the 406 Olympians who signed an open letter urging the incoming IOC President to make protecting the planet their top priority. https://t.co/WraJsGl6iU

Martina Igini
Martina Igini @Martina_Igini
7 Mar 25

RT @hausfath: Global temperatures have increased by around 1.3C over the past 85 years, with most of this in the past few decades. I've put…