Brian Dillon
Brian Dillon links environment coverage with practical, audience-focused service journalism at the Daily Express, writing about Net Zero politics alongside gardening and everyday consumer advice. He works as an audience writer at the masthead, combining newsy climate and energy themes with clear, accessible pieces that show how policy and sustainability questions touch daily routines. His beat includes environment and climate issues, but his portfolio also extends to plant care and household experiments, which gives his reporting a distinctive emphasis on real-world impact rather than abstract policy.
Environment and Net Zero politics
On the environment beat, Dillon covers Net Zero as a live political and practical issue rather than a distant target.
In his reporting on Labour’s Net Zero position, he frames the debate in stark terms around public risk, using language that underlines the potential for serious consequences when climate and energy policies are mishandled. That piece ties party positioning on Net Zero directly to outcomes for ordinary people, signalling an interest in how high-level commitments translate into safety and resilience on the ground.
His tone in this coverage is urgent and direct, prioritising clarity about stakes over technical detail.
Gardening and plant care advice
Alongside environment stories, Dillon writes extensively about gardening and plant care, drawing on expert voices to give readers specific, actionable tips. One of his pieces explains how roses growing beside a particular companion plant can become healthier and more colourful, reflecting a focus on results that can be seen in the garden rather than theory alone. He highlights what gardeners can do differently - changing planting choices, repositioning plants - and backs these suggestions with commentary from specialists, maintaining a practical, how-to style even when the underlying topic is plant science. This strand of his work keeps sustainability grounded in familiar settings such as home gardens and small outdoor spaces.
Consumer experiments and everyday sustainability
Dillon also runs simple experiments to test household advice, using his own trials as a way to make lifestyle guidance more concrete. In one widely cited example, he buys two bananas and stores them in different locations - the refrigerator and the kitchen cupboard - to compare their taste and condition after a week. He reports that the cupboard-stored banana keeps a stronger flavour than the refrigerated one, and uses that outcome to offer a clear recommendation on how to store fruit over several days. The piece centres on a small, inexpensive test, but the format shows his broader method: he takes common tips, subjects them to straightforward experiments, and then writes up the results in plain language that emphasises what people can actually taste or see.
Across these strands - Net Zero politics, gardening advice, and household experiments - Dillon’s through-line is an emphasis on outcomes that matter in everyday life, supported by either expert comment or personal testing. His environment pieces treat policy as something that affects safety and comfort, not only emissions targets, while his gardening and consumer coverage translates abstract ideas about care and sustainability into specific choices about plants and food. The result is a body of work that keeps the environment beat close to the ground: readers encounter climate and energy questions alongside the practical details of how they grow roses or store bananas, with a consistent focus on clear, direct takeaways.
4 more environment journalists.
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.