Jacqueline Kehoe
Jacqueline Kehoe is a science, nature, and travel writer whose environment coverage turns news about water, weather, and wild places into clear stories about how the planet works. At Yahoo, she writes creator-driven pieces on subjects ranging from drought-stricken reservoirs and mudslides to zoo weigh-ins and vast underground networks, keeping the focus on the systems and species behind the headlines. Her freelance work for outlets including National Geographic, Smithsonian, Travel + Leisure, AFAR, REI, Forbes, and Sierra extends the same curiosity-led approach to climate change, national parks, and conservation. She moves between quick news briefs and feature-length narratives, but the constant is a restrained, factual voice that connects environmental change to specific landscapes and decisions.
Water, climate, and stressed landscapes
Kehoe devotes a significant share of her work to the collision of climate and water resources.
She has written about major U.S. reservoirs reaching their lowest levels in decades, explaining what historic lows mean for communities and ecosystems downstream. In coverage of Greece’s wildfires and the drought that forced a shutdown of Hungary’s nuclear facility, she links heat, aridity, and infrastructure rather than treating each as an isolated event.
Reports on mudslides that close mountain highways show the same pattern, moving quickly from the incident to the geology and weather that made it inevitable. Her environmental writing often anchors broad climate trends in specific rivers, coasts, and transit corridors so the stakes of management, maintenance, and adaptation are concrete.
Disasters, weather, and global risk
Another strand of her coverage follows disasters and severe weather as they unfold, with attention to both numbers and human context.
She has filed updates on landslides, flooding, and other events managed by national disaster authorities, emphasising confirmed death tolls, damage, and the state of relief operations. In pieces on recent disasters in Nepal, she balances official briefings with clear descriptions of terrain and seasonal conditions, keeping the focus on what agencies have confirmed and what has not yet been established. Recurring Asian headlines roundups situate individual storms or heatwaves within a wider regional picture, giving a concise scan of risk across countries rather than a single-incident lens.
Even in short weather news, she stays close to verifiable data and official figures, avoiding speculation and keeping her language measured.
Wild places and human footprints
Kehoe also writes regularly about wild places and how people move through them.
Her feature on Meteora’s gravity-defying monasteries in Greece highlights both the geological formations and the long human relationship with the cliffs, treating tourism as one chapter in an older environmental story. In travel and nature pieces, she tends to foreground ecosystems and species, whether describing a Greek landscape, a zoo’s annual weighing of its residents, or a national park working toward a carbon-free future. Work for AFAR has included a deep look at whether U.S. national parks can truly go carbon-free, using Lake Superior as a test case for the technologies and policies involved. Across these stories, the through-line is an insistence that destinations are built from climate, geology, and wildlife first, and only then from itineraries and visitor experiences.
Science, curiosity, and hidden systems
Her environment beat is shaped by a broader science and curiosity mindset that runs through both her Yahoo and freelance work.
She is a writer, editor, and photographer whose work focuses on science, nature, and travel, with curiosity as the thread connecting projects as different as climate narratives in national parks and interviews with design leaders far outside the conservation world. That perspective shows in stories such as the mapping of a 110-quadrillion-mile network beneath the ground, where she translates large-scale research into plain language without reducing its scope. Pieces on activities like weighing zoo animals at a major urban zoo use specific procedures to open up larger questions about animal health, conservation practice, and data.
Her portfolio includes both branded content and journalism, but across formats she leans on clear explanations, concrete numbers, and an accessible tone that brings detailed environmental and scientific topics into everyday reach.
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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.