Tiffany Crawford
Tiffany Crawford brings a breaking-news sensibility to climate and environmental coverage at the Vancouver Sun, treating ecological stories as urgent daily news rather than background context. Her reporting focuses on how climate change and environmental risks intersect with construction, infrastructure, and the places people live and work. She has reported for the Vancouver Sun since 2009 and pursues stories about our connection with the natural environment and the threats posed by climate and ecological crises.
Climate change, ecology and everyday life
Crawford’s environment beat is anchored in explaining how climate change and ecological issues play out in ordinary life, often through recurring news roundups and focused features. Her climate and environmental news summaries, including a July 2026 roundup, collect multiple developments into one piece, emphasizing what they mean for residents, businesses, and public institutions.
Her feature work includes coverage of efforts to reduce embodied carbon in the construction industry, profiling sustainability research and how new building practices can lower lifecycle emissions. She also follows scientific fieldwork, such as snowpack core testing in remote mountain areas, and turns technical research on snowpack and weather into accessible reporting that highlights why these measurements matter for future conditions.
Across these stories, she tends to keep the focus tight on specific initiatives or research programs while spelling out their broader climate implications.
Urban environment, water quality and infrastructure
Urban environmental quality is a recurring theme in Crawford’s work, particularly where water, pollution, and public access collide. Her reporting on whether False Creek could ever be clean enough to swim in examines contamination, regulatory standards, and restoration efforts around a prominent urban waterway. In that coverage she combines expert perspectives with questions that residents ask - whether a body of water they see every day can realistically become safe for recreation - illustrating how infrastructure and environmental management affect daily life.
She connects these local issues to broader environmental concerns, such as how development, runoff, and aging systems influence water quality and ecological health in densely built areas. When she covers construction and building policy, she often foregrounds environmental performance alongside more traditional concerns like cost or regulation.
Public policy, services and social impacts
Crawford’s portfolio also includes reporting on public services and social policy, especially where costs and access shape people’s experience of government decisions.
Her coverage of child care fee increases documents some of the highest recent changes in fees, linking rising costs to family finances and the broader debate over funding and affordability. In other work she has reported on topics such as psychedelic education, reflecting an interest in how emerging health or social issues intersect with regulation, public understanding, and risk. These stories tend to use clear, direct language and focus on who is affected, what is changing, and what data or reports underpin the policy discussion.
Even when the subject is not strictly environmental, she often situates it within questions of public responsibility and long-term impacts.
Breaking news and cross-outlet reporting
Although she has a strong climate and environment focus, Crawford continues to work as a breaking-news reporter, moving quickly on emerging stories and contributing to wider coverage.
She has provided reporting for national coverage of the Tumbler Ridge shooter case and the government’s planned meeting with an AI company about the shooter’s chat history, adding local detail and context to a story with national policy implications. Records show her listed as a reporter for Vancouver Sun and The Province in contact information used for municipal freedom-of-information releases, underscoring her role in covering timely civic and governmental issues.
This mix of urgent news and deeper environmental pieces means her work can shift from incident-driven stories to longer explanatory features while maintaining a consistent focus on evidence and public impact.
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Adam Kovac
Adam Kovac is a breaking news reporter at Scientific American who explains fast-moving stories where science, climate and public policy intersect. His beat spans climate-driven extremes, El Niño, energy, infrastructure, space, mathematics and public health. He has written about super El Niño, extreme weather, ozone recovery, diesel prices, electric rain, peeling paint, wine chemistry, lunar craters, space missions, NASA telescopes, vaccines, IVF treatments, TikTok remedies and AI-created viruses. He also covers regulation, political campaigns and pressures on scientific institutions. His stories are fast-turn news features and explainers. He uses expert quotes and clear descriptions of underlying mechanisms to show why developments matter. He connects technical details to practical stakes, including risks to ecosystems, economies, patients, public safety, technology and long-term scientific work.
Angela Capobianco
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Arrthy Thayaparan
Arrthy Thayaparan is a CBC News reporter who shows how government decisions affect daily life. She covers climate, transportation, education, community issues, trade, tariffs and the cost of living. Her reporting examines how policy changes affect prices, public services, employers, workers, consumers and families. She has written about Ontario businesses facing tariff pressures, ticket resale rules, tariff support funding, transit changes after the Scarborough RT derailment, highway speed limits, education union talks and mandatory school platforms. She also covers public-service work rules, community-service funding, municipal campaigns, tenant protections and the economic effects of major events. Thayaparan reports through concrete numbers, program details and timelines. She gives space to governments, unions, workers, businesses and residents, and traces decisions from political debate to their effects on commutes, classrooms, budgets, workplaces and neighbourhoods.
Bianca McKeown
Bianca McKeown stands out for reporting the everyday consequences of climate change, infrastructure decisions, social policy and Indigenous governance in northern communities. She reports for CBC North across television, radio and digital. Her work focuses on how weather shifts, wildlife changes and development projects affect daily life, travel, safety and local economies. She covers large infrastructure and energy proposals, foster parent payments, cost of living, vulnerable families and Indigenous leadership. She also reports on national reconciliation efforts and the role of Inuit voices in decision-making. Her stories rely on practical details, community voices, interviews and clear descriptions of what residents, officials and advocates face on the ground. Her coverage is direct and descriptive, and it connects policy decisions to lived reality.