Angela Giuffrida
Angela Giuffrida is a Rome correspondent for the Guardian and the Observer, with more than 16 years of experience as a journalist and editor. Her environment reporting focuses on how climate events, tourism pressures and political decisions collide in Italy and across Europe. She covers breaking developments as well as longer-form explainers, moving between live news about climate-linked crises, analytical pieces on overtourism and multimedia explainers on immigration and the far right. Within the Guardian’s network of foreign correspondents she holds the Rome brief, appearing in coverage that highlights the role of these reporters in the organisation’s international reporting.
Climate, wildfires and European emergencies
Giuffrida’s environment beat is grounded in concrete events, often using extreme weather and natural hazards as the entry point into wider social and economic consequences. She has reported on European farm crises and leaders’ warnings about global warming, contributing to briefings that link climate change to food security and water stress. Her coverage of wildfires and evacuations from tourist areas in France and Spain follows the same pattern, treating fires not only as meteorological phenomena but as shocks to local economies and communities.
Across these stories she places climate impacts in everyday settings, showing how environmental disruption reshapes work, travel and governance rather than treating it as an abstract scientific topic.
Tourism, overtourism and Italian hotspots
Tourism and overtourism are a recurring thread in her work.
She has written on tourist taxes across Europe, including how levies are used as a “nice little earner” for Italian hotspots, bringing fiscal policy and local politics into what might otherwise be a straightforward tourism story. In another piece she examines the tipping point every popular holiday destination reaches in the era of overtourism, drawing out the tensions between visitor numbers, quality of life for residents and sustainability.
Even in shorter news items – such as a report on a crocodile head discovered in luggage at an Italian airport – she uses eye-catching incidents at travel hubs to illuminate security, regulation and the breadth of her patch. Taken together, these pieces show a reporter who treats tourism as a serious structural issue, closely linked to urban management, environmental strain and local economies.
Italian politics, migration and Europe’s rightward shift
Giuffrida’s environment and tourism coverage sits alongside sustained reporting on Italian politics and migration. In a video explainer on Giorgia Meloni’s anti-migrant agenda, she analyses how one leader’s stance on immigration is shifting Europe to the right and how that agenda is used domestically. She focuses on how rhetoric on borders and asylum translates into policy, and how those decisions reverberate through European institutions and alliances.
This strand of her work shows a focus on the mechanics of power: she tracks how policy decisions on borders, tourism and climate intersect, and how Italian debates can reset the wider European conversation. She works across formats, from traditional articles to collaborative briefings and video explainers, which makes her coverage adaptable to fast-moving stories and deeper background pieces.
Courts, workplace safety and historical accountability
Legal and judicial developments are another consistent part of Giuffrida’s reporting, particularly where they expose the human cost of policy and corporate decisions.
Her coverage of a manslaughter inquiry after the death of a worker in a Rome tower collapse examines workplace safety, accountability and the pace of investigations into fatal accidents. In reporting on Milan prosecutors investigating alleged “sniper tourism” during the Bosnian war, she turns to historical crimes, documenting how courts confront past abuses and the forms of extreme violence that can be commodified.
Across these pieces she combines court reporting with a concern for human rights and the long tail of conflict, showing how the search for justice plays out both in contemporary workplaces and in the aftermath of war.
Overall, Giuffrida works as a foreign correspondent with a strong environmental lens, tying together climate impacts, tourism, migration, labour and justice within Italy and Europe. Her stories tend to foreground people, institutions and places rather than technical detail, which makes her coverage well suited to narratives where policy, everyday life and environmental change meet.
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Abby Wallace
Abby Wallace covers where energy, climate and politics meet, with a focus on how net zero, power markets and extreme weather affect people and institutions. She is an energy and climate reporter at POLITICO, covering U.K. energy policy, climate targets and the transition from fossil fuels. Her subjects include government and opposition debates over net zero, decarbonization, support schemes, infrastructure, public spending and climate adaptation. She also reports on energy companies, household bills, labor standards, supply chains and corporate accountability. Her work connects technical policy choices to jobs, competitiveness, public services and voter sentiment. She uses polling, expert voices and political analysis to examine public attitudes and government response to extreme weather. Before POLITICO, she worked on the companies desk at the Financial Times and the business news desk at Insider. She has also freelanced on politics, business and climate.
Adam Fulton
Adam Fulton is a digital news producer focused on fast-moving global stories where environment, conflict and politics meet. He works on the Guardian’s Australian operation, using rolling live blogs to cover geopolitical crises, climate-linked disasters and wars with clear structure and context. His Middle East coverage, including the Gaza peace plan, tracks tension between political messaging and on-the-ground realities, tying leaders’ statements to military movements, diplomatic reactions and humanitarian reports. His disaster reporting, such as on Nepal–Tibet floods, links rising tolls and missing people to infrastructure damage, rescue strain and cascading environmental threats. His Ukraine war blogs treat resource scarcity, especially water and energy, as strategic factors and track how infrastructure damage shapes the conflict. A former entertainment and arts reporter and senior editor at major Australian newspapers, he applies careful pacing and narrative arcs to collaborative, time-stamped live coverage.
Alec Luhn
Alec Luhn is an environment reporter whose work follows climate change at its extremes, frontiers and human consequences, often reporting directly from places where warming, instability and displacement intersect. He covers climate, conflict and migration, showing how abstract climate trends turn into risks for communities, infrastructure, health and preparedness. He reports for New Scientist on climate breakdown, extreme events, El Niño, limits of models, melting glaciers, warming seas and adaptation to heat, mixing scientific explanation with lived experience. A defining strand of his work is reporting from remote icy and mountainous regions on Arctic sea ice loss, permafrost, polar bears, pollution and fragile ecosystems. He has a long record on conflict and security, including the Skripal poisoning case. His reporting appears in New Scientist and major international outlets, with work across print, digital, audio and television and recognition from climate and journalism awards.
Amy Lyall
Amy Lyall is a regular contributor to The Connexion, and her work stands out for turning French rules, services and the built environment into clear, usable advice for everyday readers. She covers housing, energy use, resident obligations and the practical steps behind things like getting air-conditioning approved for flats. Her beat also includes national and local schemes, insurance and legal conditions for lending a car, mobile network coverage, mosquito-borne diseases, water filters, fruit harvests and emergency drones with defibrillators. She writes news, practical guides and magazine-style features, using plain language to explain technical topics and official systems. She also writes explainers on French words and phrases and occasional culture pieces on unusual sites such as Maison Picassiette.