Marina Hirota
Marina Hirota is a scientist and professor of meteorology at the Federal University of Santa Catarina in Brazil. Her research focuses on the impacts of climate change on weather patterns, including extreme events like heatwaves and floods. Hirota has highlighted the increasing frequency and intensity of such events as potentially linked to the climate crisis, emphasizing the challenges they pose to ecosystems and human communities.
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Marina Hirota is a scientist from the Instituto Serrapilheira who signed the letter criticizing the COP30 draft.
Cientistas associam falta de menção a combustíveis fósseis em rascunho do texto final da COP30 à 'traição'
Brazil· 2025-11-21
Marina Hirota is from the Instituto Serrapilheira and contributed to the scientific declaration.
cientistas fazem dura crítica às negociações da COP30Brazil· 2025-11-20
Marina Hirota, a scientist and professor of meteorology, linked the current heatwave and last year’s floods to the climate crisis.
Intense heatwave in southern Brazil forces schools to suspend return | Brazil
United Kingdom· 2025-02-12
