Miguel Guevara
Miguel Guevara covers environment stories for The Desert Sun, focusing on how climate and weather shape daily life in the desert. His work on Palm Springs summers and extreme heat treats environmental conditions as part of the fabric of local life rather than just a backdrop. He writes about the ways residents understand, endure, and even embrace the realities of extreme heat, using the environment as the frame for broader questions about place and lifestyle.
Palm Springs summers and extreme heat
Guevara’s piece on Palm Springs summers and extreme heat takes a clear position that the season is worth defending, even when temperatures rise to punishing levels.
He uses the subject to explore what makes summers distinctive in a desert city, describing how the heat shapes routines, expectations, and the feel of the place. The story treats extreme heat as something people learn to live with and work around, rather than an abstract climate statistic. By defending the season, he highlights the tradeoffs residents accept and the value they find in long, hot days, setting environmental conditions at the center of the narrative.
Environment coverage with a local lens
Across his environment beat, Guevara focuses on how local conditions affect the people who live with them. The Palm Springs summers story shows him starting from a specific place and climate reality, then building outward to questions of comfort, identity, and habit. He uses recognizable experiences - stepping into the heat, planning days around the temperature, deciding when and how to be outside - to anchor his coverage.
This approach keeps environmental reporting close to the ground, tying climate and weather directly to the choices residents make about their daily lives.
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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.