Gavin Nguyen
Gavin Nguyen focuses on how local weather and environmental conditions shape public safety and civic life, combining daily forecasts with deeper reporting on community impacts. He works across News Channel 3’s reporting and weather coverage, delivering both short-term forecasts and enterprise stories that follow how those conditions affect residents and decision-makers.
Local forecasts and heat risk
Nguyen regularly delivers local forecast pieces that explain temperature shifts, humidity changes and their practical implications in clear, direct language.
In his coverage of the start of summer, he walks audiences through a warming trend, noting how highs rise above seasonal norms and when triple-digit heat arrives during the day. He folds climatological context into these forecasts, comparing expected highs to average values and outlining how heat and humidity translate into official HeatRisk levels for desert areas. In later work on an extended October warm spell, he tracks a prolonged stretch of above-average warmth and emphasizes how that pattern will feel over several days rather than in a single headline event.
His environment coverage stays close to lived experience, using changing heat and humidity to anchor broader conversations about risk, preparedness and daily routines.
Investigations into public safety systems
He also takes on investigative assignments that look inside public safety systems and how they function under pressure. In an I-Team report on emergency response, he rides along in a paramedic cab to document the risks first responders face when drivers fail to yield, showing how delays and near-misses play out in real time.
He extends the story by examining how common the problem is and what it means in a job where every second counts. In another I-Team piece, he explores how local police departments are seeking additional services as mental health resources strain, focusing on the way officers respond to people in crisis and the life-or-death choices those calls can involve.
These investigations keep attention on system-level pressures and the human consequences, rather than on isolated incidents.
Coverage of elections and local decision-making
Nguyen reports on the mechanics of elections and local government, often focusing on how official processes reach ordinary voters. In a piece on voter information guides, he highlights printing errors that could confuse constituents and seeks clarification from the state elections office, framing the story around the accuracy of materials people rely on to vote.
He covers candidate forums, capturing voter sentiment and quoting residents who call for a new direction as city council hopefuls present their platforms in public settings. In an exclusive interview with Cathedral City’s new city manager, he concentrates on the official’s vision for the city’s future and uses the conversation to draw out priorities for services and development.
These stories show a consistent interest in how policy decisions and administrative choices are communicated, scrutinised and felt at street level.
Community events and civic identity
Nguyen extends his civic coverage into cultural events that carry economic and symbolic weight for the community. In his reporting on sponsorship challenges for Palm Springs Pride, he examines how funding shortfalls affect the scale of the celebration and details how local organizations step in to boost contributions and stabilize the event. He speaks with Pride leadership about increased support and uses their comments to illustrate how community groups adapt when traditional sponsorship streams falter.
Taken together with his political and public safety reporting, these event-focused stories underline a broader interest in how institutions and residents share responsibility for civic life.
4 more environment journalists.
Alan Halaly
Alan Halaly is a water reporter at the Las Vegas Review-Journal who treats the Colorado River as a working system, not a backdrop, making its governance, infrastructure and risks central to his beat. He covers how policy decisions and infrastructure projects shape the region’s water future, linking high-level choices on the Colorado River, dams, mining and data centers to everyday consequences under mounting heat and growth pressures. He reports deeply on new laws, lawsuits and regulatory shifts, focusing on on-the-ground impacts. His coverage spans Colorado River cuts, Hoover Dam operations, extreme weather, heat and parks, septic system rules, workplace and public health risks, lithium and gold mines, protected landscapes, data centers, AI infrastructure and public funding. Previously he reported for metropolitan dailies, digital outlets and public media, including the Miami Herald, WUFT, The Daily Beast and Miami New Times, with work recognized by Hearst, ONA and the Society of Environmental Journalists.
Alejandra Borunda
Alejandra Borunda reports on how climate change affects human health for NPR. Her work treats global warming as a direct cause of physical and mental health risks. She covers extreme heat, including undercounted deaths, lost sleep and local efforts to track heat-related fatalities. She also reports on wildfire smoke, hurricanes, disease spread such as dengue fever, trauma, stress and unequal health impacts. Her stories examine how communities protect themselves and recover, as well as practical solutions involving climate-resilient crops, agriculture and diet. Before NPR, she wrote about climate science and environmental issues for National Geographic, including glacier retreat, shade and heat inequity, and shrinking ice-fishing seasons. A former climate scientist, she combines field reporting with scientific data to connect atmospheric research to everyday risks, choices and people’s lived experiences.
Alex Lubben
Alex Lubben is an environment reporter at The Times-Picayune/The Advocate who connects climate risk to policy, industry and community change. He covers Gulf warming, flood protection, coastal restoration, wetlands litigation, industrial projects such as SpaceX’s possible expansion, invasive species and local ecosystems. His reporting tracks how law, politics and corporate decisions shape levees, drainage, marshes and long-term resilience. He also examines climate relocation, housing and labor, showing how hurricanes, floods and wildfires displace vulnerable communities and expose gaps in government systems. He works on a small environment team and brings an investigative background to document work, data analysis, legal and policy research, and field reporting. His work has appeared in VICE News, The Center for Public Integrity, The Nation, Jewish Currents and NBC News.
Alex Wigglesworth
Alex Wigglesworth reports on how climate, land use and public policy shape California communities. She covers the Inland Empire and Mojave Desert for the Los Angeles Times and is part of its environment team. Her beat includes wildfires, megadrought, extreme weather, desert development, conservation, wildlife, industrial hazards, aging infrastructure and regulatory enforcement. She has covered Western Joshua trees, desert tortoises, beaver-led restoration, toxic lead pipes, air-quality concerns after industrial fires and the effects of nuclear war on food systems. Earlier, she was a general assignment reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News and Philly.com. She combines breaking news with detailed reporting grounded in scientific studies, modeling and expert interviews. Her work connects fires, drought and other hazards to climate change, while examining how agencies, companies and land-use decisions affect people and ecosystems.