Sacrifice Zone: How Europe’s Hunt for Non-Russian Oil Poisons Kazakhstan’s Caspian Coast
In 2025, one in every eight barrels of oil imported into Italy came from Kazakhstan. Starting in Atyrau, we traced...

Benedetta Pagni is an Italian science journalist and data analyst based in Trieste. She specialises in medical writing and works as a freelance science communicator with Formicablu and as a data journalist with Facta. Her work spans database creation, scientific literature reviews, data analysis, and the use of artificial intelligence tools to analyse satellite imagery and data. Her main areas of interest include climate change, the environment, and health. She holds a PhD in biomedicine from the University of Rome Tor Vergata, where she conducted research at the National Institute for Infectious Diseases, and a Master’s degree in Science Communication from the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste.
In 2025, one in every eight barrels of oil imported into Italy came from Kazakhstan. Starting in Atyrau, we traced...
