Bethan McKernan
Bethan McKernan is a Guardian reporter whose work links hard politics and conflict to the lived impact of climate and environmental change, particularly in the UK. On the environment beat, she focuses on how extreme weather and climate stress are transforming landscapes and daily life, including coverage of relentless UK heatwaves turning the “green and pleasant land” brown. Her background in long‑running conflict reporting informs an approach that treats climate and political decisions as interconnected forces shaping people’s futures.
Extreme weather and a changing UK landscape
McKernan’s environment coverage includes reporting on successive UK heatwaves and their cumulative impact on the countryside, framing climate change through visible shifts in fields, parks and public spaces rather than abstract temperature charts. Her piece on relentless heat turning the “green and pleasant land” brown exemplifies a focus on how climate stress alters familiar landscapes and the routines of people who live and work in them.
She writes in clear, direct prose that foregrounds observed change on the ground, using the condition of soil, vegetation and water as entry points into wider questions about resilience and adaptation.
Middle East conflict and political power
Alongside environmental reporting, McKernan has a substantial track record covering Middle East conflicts and political power struggles for the Guardian.
Her work on Israel and Palestine ranges from daily news to analytical pieces on leaders such as Benjamin Netanyahu and allegations of foreign influence in Israeli politics, including coverage of the “Qatargate” scandal. She has reported on ceasefire developments in Gaza, explaining their implications for civilians and regional dynamics. Over several years she reported from Jerusalem and across Israel and Palestine, building long-term familiarity with the region’s political actors and the everyday consequences of policy and violence.
Investigations into weapons, accountability and human impact
McKernan’s investigative reporting follows the trail of weapons and policy decisions to the people affected on the ground.
In coverage of the war in Yemen, she has traced UK- and US-manufactured munitions from factories to the sites where they were used, linking arms exports to individual families and communities harmed in specific strikes. Her dispatches from Yemen have combined on‑the‑scene reporting with detailed work on supply chains and official records, examining Britain’s role in the crisis and the wider system that allows such weapons to reach conflict zones.
This habit of connecting technical detail about weapons and policy to individual stories carries over into her broader work, giving her pieces both evidential depth and clear human stakes.
Domestic politics, devolution and regional identity
More recently, McKernan’s reporting has expanded to include UK domestic politics and devolution, with a particular focus on Wales and its place in wider constitutional debates. She covers Welsh issues for the Guardian within both UK news and international coverage streams, bringing experience from conflict reporting into stories about governance, identity and regional power. Her contributions to briefing-style pieces on calls for constitutional change across Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland show an interest in how decisions made at the centre intersect with regional demands and grievances.
This strand of her work adds a domestic political layer to a career largely built on international reporting, reinforcing an overarching concern with how power is exercised and felt in specific places.
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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.