Marta Abbà is an investigative journalists based in Milan.
She specialises in environmental crimes, migration, just transition, gender and indigenous rights. She creates interdisciplinary and cross-media reporting with an intersectional and decolonised perspective and slows journalistic projects with high social impact on the environment and human rights, especially for youth or marginalised communities. Her work has been published in media including Wired, Voxeurop, Lifegate, OBCT, Unbias the News, Altreconomia, QCode, and In Genere.
Marta collaborates with colleagues, NGOs and international organisations around the world combining a love of people and nature with a scientific background. She has been awarded grants from the Journalismfund, Earth Journalism Network and International Journalists Programmes, has been selected for investigative journalism workshops by Display Europe, WepodAcademy and as a science journalist in residence by the European Research Centre programme (Frontiers).
She does long-form with images, dynamic data visualisations and satellite maps as well as podcasts and multimedia projects. As a member of the journalist collectives Info.Nodes, FADA and part of Clean Energy Wire (CLEW), she enjoys creating science outreach projects in collaboration with researchers and artists for those who think science is not beautiful, not human and not accessible.
