Adelaide Lang
Adelaide Lang reports on environmental issues with a focus on how climate change and policy decisions affect communities on the frontline. She reports for The Daily Telegraph and her work also appears in The Canberra Times, giving her stories reach across multiple mastheads. Her recent output spans climate reports and detailed coverage of courtroom proceedings involving public officials, reflecting a blend of environmental and justice-focused journalism. She also contributes to National Indigenous Times, extending that focus into outlets dedicated to Indigenous news and commentary.
Climate-threatened islands and community resilience
Lang’s environment coverage is marked by close attention to communities living with direct climate threat rather than abstract policy debate. In reporting on climate-threatened islanders fighting back, she follows residents who confront rising environmental risks and organise to defend their homes and way of life. The work centres the voices of those already experiencing climate impacts, showing how local campaigns, adaptation efforts and political pressure connect to broader climate discussions.
Her approach keeps the story at human scale, describing what intensifying climate pressure means for daily life and the choices communities face.
Courts, politics and accountability
Alongside environment reporting, Lang covers court proceedings involving political figures and serious criminal allegations.
Her work includes coverage of the trial of State MP Gareth Ward, who contests historical sexual and indecent assault charges, tracking how those allegations are tested in court. She follows the progress of the case and focuses on the way the justice system handles accusations against public officials, making the legal process legible to a general audience.
This courtroom strand of her reporting brings questions of power, responsibility and institutional accountability into view, complementing her climate work by showing another arena where public decisions shape individual lives.
Indigenous news outlets and community perspectives
Lang writes guest pieces for National Indigenous Times, an outlet dedicated to Indigenous news and views. Through this work she engages directly with Indigenous communities and issues, reflecting the publication’s emphasis on Indigenous experiences and commentary. Contributing to both mainstream tabloids and Indigenous-focused outlets, she positions community voices within different media environments and broadens the audience for stories about Indigenous perspectives on law, policy and the environment.
Cross-masthead reach and reporting style
Lang’s bylines span The Daily Telegraph, The Canberra Times and National Indigenous Times, giving her a presence across tabloid, broadsheet-style and specialist Indigenous outlets. Her reporting therefore moves easily between hard news court coverage and longer-form pieces on climate and community, while maintaining a clear, factual style across formats.
She brings more than five years of experience in digital media and courtroom reporting to this work, grounding complex stories in precise descriptions of events and their consequences. That combination of environment, courts and Indigenous-focused reporting makes her a fit for stories that sit at the intersection of climate impacts, legal frameworks and community response.
4 more environment journalists.
Ashleigh McMillan
Ashleigh McMillan is a breaking news reporter at The Age. She stands out for covering the environment through public events, infrastructure and everyday city life. Her reporting tracks how protests, policy decisions and sudden incidents change routines, public safety and the spaces people move through. She covers fast-moving stories across Victoria, with a focus on community tension, access and the lived effects of official decisions. Her work includes protests and public demonstrations, crime and courts, transport and ticketing changes, traffic experiments, weather, and environmental conditions in the city. She reports on what people see and feel on the ground, with attention to victims, commuters, residents and the practical consequences of legal and infrastructure decisions.
Bareket Falk
Bareket Falk uses environmental stories to show how growing bodies handle physical stress, especially heat, during exercise. She is a pediatric exercise physiologist and kinesiology professor whose work focuses on how children, adolescents and adults respond to activity across growth and development. She writes evidence-led explainers for The Conversation that test assumptions about children’s vulnerability and turn decades of exercise science into clear, practical guidance. Her core piece looks at how children and adults cope with extreme heat, walking through basic thermoregulation and challenging the idea that children are automatically more fragile. Her journalism draws directly on research into blood flow, sweating, body size and growth, keeping technical detail tight and translating findings into concrete behaviours such as pacing activity, seeking shade and hydration. She is interested in how physical activity interacts with maturation, body composition and recovery, and uses data to check myths about kids’ risk.
Bec Lorrimer
Bec Lorrimer is a visual journalist and picture editor who tells environment stories through photography and careful image selection at the Guardian. She works at the intersection of climate coverage and visual editing, using picture-led formats to show how global heating and other environmental pressures play out in everyday life. Her environment beat centres on picture galleries that track the lived experience of climate extremes, including record high temperatures in South Korea, with in pictures sequences that foreground the scale of global heating over text-led analysis. She also contributes to monthly roundups of the strongest photos and human-centred features such as a nursing home story, focusing on people and places under pressure. As a global visual editor and assistant picture editor on international fronts, she selects images across environment, politics, culture and general news, drawing on her background as a photographer, video director and photo producer.
Blanca Begert
Blanca Begert treats climate change as a system of policies, infrastructure and markets, following money and regulation at the same time. She is a climate and energy reporter on the environment desk at the Los Angeles Times, covering California’s power sector, oil and gas industry and efforts to cut emissions. Her work tracks how state agencies and legislators design and enforce rules for utilities, refiners and other energy companies, often highlighting friction between climate goals and business interests and linking corporate earnings to consumer costs and political pressure. She previously covered California climate policy and politics for Inside Climate News and Politico. Begert has extensive experience reporting on forests, Indigenous land rights and carbon markets in Latin America and has worked as a reporter, editor and multimedia producer on environmental stories, including video journalism.