Natricia Duncan
Natricia Duncan reports for the Guardian as its Caribbean correspondent, focusing on how climate change, environmental policy and colonial history shape life across the region. Her work centres on climate justice, reparations and everyday struggles over land and sea, with a consistent emphasis on the people bearing the brunt of these forces. She combines on-the-ground reporting with economic and historical detail, using the Caribbean as a lens on global debates about responsibility, repair and resilience.
Climate-fuelled damage and extreme weather
Duncan’s environment coverage tracks the material toll of a warming world on Caribbean states, including a report on how the region bears the brunt of £43bn in climate-fuelled damage to developing islands. She treats climate impacts as economic and social crises rather than abstract models, foregrounding the scale of losses and who absorbs them. Her framing links environmental shocks to long-standing structural vulnerabilities, making clear that climate risk compounds pre-existing inequalities.
She also reports on extreme weather events, contributing to coverage of Jamaica’s worst storm since records began and the destruction left by Hurricane Melissa.
In a Long Wave piece on Melissa, she helps set the scene for an “unprecedented” storm and explores how Caribbean societies find themselves “at the mercy of nature.” Her contributions to daily briefings and newsletters extend that work, supplying ground-level detail and regional context as storms move through and recovery begins.
Reparations, slavery’s economic legacy and climate justice
Duncan’s reporting draws a clear line between climate vulnerability today and the historical damage of slavery and colonial rule. She co-reports research estimating that the UK stole 25 million years of life and labour through slavery in Barbados, with experts putting the economic harm at $2tn while stressing it is “not an invoice.”
That piece combines archival and economic analysis with present-day politics, showing how historical extraction feeds into contemporary debates on debt, development and climate finance.
Her coverage of reparations is ongoing rather than episodic. She writes on a Commonwealth summit where reparations could be “on the table,” spotlighting arguments for redress from across the bloc. In another article, she reports on a manifesto from Barbados’s prime minister that sets out a moral, ethical and legal case for reparations after centuries of enslavement.
Across these stories she treats reparations not as a symbolic gesture but as a practical framework for addressing the long tail of economic and environmental harm.
Coastal access, land rights and everyday environmental justice
Duncan’s environment beat extends to land and coastal rights, focusing on how ordinary people contest control over beaches and shoreline.
In a report on Jamaican beach access, she covers campaigners taking their case to court to fight the privatisation of the coast. The piece follows activists challenging colonial-era law and demanding “free, legal, unfettered, forever rights” to use beaches, framing access to the sea as a question of justice rather than leisure.
By pairing legal proceedings with activist language, she shows how environmental issues sit inside broader struggles over class, race and historical entitlement. Her coverage makes clear that who can stand on the sand, fish, or gather at the water’s edge is shaped by centuries of ownership and law, not just current development plans.
This focus on everyday environmental rights complements her work on high-level climate negotiations and reparations debates, giving a ground-up view of how policy decisions are experienced.
Sport, culture and regional identity
Duncan also writes on sport and culture as part of the same story about power, pride and repair. In a piece on the Emancipation Cricket Festival in St Vincent and the Grenadines, she reports how leaders across the Caribbean express “deep concern” about the state of the sport and look to revive passion and pride for cricket and for the region.
The article treats cricket as more than a game, connecting it to questions of emancipation, cohesion and the stories Caribbean societies tell about themselves.
Her Long Wave work explores similar themes of identity and decolonisation.
In one edition she writes about Barbados inviting people “back to their homeland,” showing how diaspora links and cultural exchange reshape ties between the Caribbean and London. In another she contributes to coverage of why more countries are ditching the British monarchy, following efforts by Commonwealth nations to redefine national identity in a post-colonial context.
She also participates in discussions of Caribbean spiritual traditions, including an examination of why the often maligned obeah tradition endures and how it is portrayed in contemporary film. Together, these pieces show a correspondent who treats environment, politics and culture as a connected terrain, using specific stories to illuminate the larger shifts under way in the Caribbean.
4 more environment journalists.
Adelaide Lang
Adelaide Lang combines climate reporting with courtroom and Indigenous-focused journalism. She reports for The Daily Telegraph, with work also appearing in The Canberra Times, and contributes guest pieces to National Indigenous Times. Her environment coverage focuses on climate-threatened islands, community resilience and how policy decisions affect people facing direct environmental risks. She follows local campaigns, adaptation efforts and political pressure while keeping the human effects clear. Lang also covers court proceedings involving public officials, including the trial of State MP Gareth Ward over historical sexual and indecent assault charges. Her reporting examines how allegations are tested in court and how the justice system handles accusations against people in power. With more than five years in digital media and courtroom reporting, she writes clear, factual accounts of events, legal processes and their consequences.
Ashleigh McMillan
Ashleigh McMillan is a breaking news reporter at The Age. She stands out for covering the environment through public events, infrastructure and everyday city life. Her reporting tracks how protests, policy decisions and sudden incidents change routines, public safety and the spaces people move through. She covers fast-moving stories across Victoria, with a focus on community tension, access and the lived effects of official decisions. Her work includes protests and public demonstrations, crime and courts, transport and ticketing changes, traffic experiments, weather, and environmental conditions in the city. She reports on what people see and feel on the ground, with attention to victims, commuters, residents and the practical consequences of legal and infrastructure decisions.
Bareket Falk
Bareket Falk uses environmental stories to show how growing bodies handle physical stress, especially heat, during exercise. She is a pediatric exercise physiologist and kinesiology professor whose work focuses on how children, adolescents and adults respond to activity across growth and development. She writes evidence-led explainers for The Conversation that test assumptions about children’s vulnerability and turn decades of exercise science into clear, practical guidance. Her core piece looks at how children and adults cope with extreme heat, walking through basic thermoregulation and challenging the idea that children are automatically more fragile. Her journalism draws directly on research into blood flow, sweating, body size and growth, keeping technical detail tight and translating findings into concrete behaviours such as pacing activity, seeking shade and hydration. She is interested in how physical activity interacts with maturation, body composition and recovery, and uses data to check myths about kids’ risk.
Bec Lorrimer
Bec Lorrimer is a visual journalist and picture editor who tells environment stories through photography and careful image selection at the Guardian. She works at the intersection of climate coverage and visual editing, using picture-led formats to show how global heating and other environmental pressures play out in everyday life. Her environment beat centres on picture galleries that track the lived experience of climate extremes, including record high temperatures in South Korea, with in pictures sequences that foreground the scale of global heating over text-led analysis. She also contributes to monthly roundups of the strongest photos and human-centred features such as a nursing home story, focusing on people and places under pressure. As a global visual editor and assistant picture editor on international fronts, she selects images across environment, politics, culture and general news, drawing on her background as a photographer, video director and photo producer.