Environment Journalistsin Canada

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 stands out for reporting how policy, infrastructure and environmental decisions translate into concrete effects for workers, residents and vulnerable communities. She is a digital broadcast journalist at Global News and works as a general assignment video journalist with a focus on environmental reporting, municipal affairs, housing and labour. Her stories cover labour protections, municipal governance, environmental conflicts and social policy. She reports on how land use, climate and regulatory choices affect communities, from glyphosate spraying fears in Bear River to extreme heat and support for people sleeping rough. She also covers workers’ rights, long-term care strikes, municipal budgets, ferry service delays, heritage designation, housing reuse, and bridge replacement plans, with close attention to negotiations, official decisions and on-the-ground impact.

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 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.

Brandie Weikle connects environment and climate stories to work, health, housing and family life, showing how systems-level change plays out for ordinary people. She is a writer and editor with CBC Radio whose reporting and production span climate-focused programs and talk shows. She focuses on heat waves, housing and community resilience, climate-friendly innovation in agriculture, workplace and labour market pressures, cost-of-living and consumer risk, health systems, care gaps and social well-being. Her work explains complex issues in plain terms, using specific cases and voices. She centres tenants, farmers, essential workers, patients, caregivers, seniors and young people using social platforms. She also specializes in contemporary family life and long-form storytelling, including radio documentary work such as “Fatherhood, Interrupted” and features on trauma, justice and intergenerational impact.

Catherine Boudreau is a senior reporter at Latitude Media who treats data centers and AI as critical levers in whether the energy transition succeeds or stalls. She covers the energy transition, focusing on how energy, climate, agriculture, and emerging technologies intersect with business and public policy. Her work centers on the financial, corporate, and regulatory structures behind clean energy and climate tech, with recent coverage of data centers, AI infrastructure, electricity demand, and climate risk. Another core strand of her reporting is climate finance, investment flows, and corporate strategy, translating loan programs, fund closures, manufacturing scale-ups, and unconventional partnerships into clear accounts of who is financing the energy transition. She also tracks policy, regulation, and climate accountability, drawing on a decade of experience across climate, energy, and agriculture and an award-winning investigation into federal nutrition research.

Dan Haygarth is a senior reporter whose environment coverage is driven by the real-world impact of climate and weather on people’s daily lives. He reports for The Independent, focusing on how climate and weather events affect people in the UK. His environment beat centres on duration, intensity and public consequences rather than technical policy or science, using clear explanations to answer practical questions, as in his coverage of recent UK heatwaves. He brings a background in long-form reporting on politics, culture, regeneration and social issues, which shapes his attention to context, knock-on effects and the links between policy, place and people. Earlier regeneration-focused work on urban change and community impact informs his interest in housing, infrastructure, business and everyday life. He balances straight news with explanatory and feature writing, using concise, factual prose and plain structure.

Dennis Mersereau is a weather specialist known for hype-free coverage of extreme weather, turning complex forecasts into clear guidance for people facing storms, heat waves, and unusual patterns. He is a digital writer for The Weather Network, where he covers fast-moving active weather across Canada and around the world. He has more than a decade of experience as a weather writer and author, including a long-running DAMWeather blog and science coverage. His beat spans prolonged heat waves, oppressive humidity, drought and rainfall imbalances, tropical storms and hurricanes, coastal flooding, derechos, tornado outbreaks, and rare high-elevation tornadoes. He reports by translating model output and advisories into plain language, focusing on timing, impacts, and practical relief, using detailed explanations, strong data, clear maps, and occasional dry humour to keep serious coverage readable.

Emma McIntosh is an investigative environment and climate reporter who treats environmental stories as investigations, following paper trails, records and freedom-of-information requests to show who benefits and who bears the risk. She is an investigative reporter at the Toronto Star, where she focuses on climate change, land use and environmental policy, covering the tangible impacts of climate change, extreme wildfire behaviour and evolving firefighting challenges. Her work often centres on systems, institutions and accountability, including reporting on an oilsands leak that tied industrial impacts to human rights concerns. Earlier, she covered environment and energy for other outlets, including pollution, resource extraction and environmental regulation. Her major investigations include Greenbelt land-use and development politics, energy, elections and misinformation, and money, regulation and accountability, such as donor patterns for an Alberta separatist party and regulatory questions around the gambling sector.

Graeme Bruce turns complex environmental data into clear charts, maps and interactive explainers for CBC News, with a particular focus on showing the scale and impact of wildfire seasons. He works as a data and graphics producer on stories at the intersection of environment, policy and economics. He tracks wildfires across Canada with maps, charts and live data, and also explains trade disputes, tariffs, time zones and political age gaps with the same visual approach. His work uses national datasets and simple metrics to make broad systems readable fast. He previously worked as a digital editor at the Winnipeg Free Press.

Han Huang is a data-driven graphics reporter at Reuters who uses quantitative environmental metrics to explain how risk shapes major events. He works at the intersection of science, sport and disaster coverage, focusing on climate pressures such as heat and glacial collapse and their impact on people, infrastructure and tournaments. In his World Cup work, he tests assumptions about player safety and match management using Wet Bulb Globe Temperature readings, mapped thresholds and interactive charts. In coverage of glacier collapse and flood risk in Nepal, he traces the path from ice failure to downstream damage with maps, elevation data and timelines. He reports in collaborative graphics teams, leans on satellite-derived measurements and scrollytelling formats, and keeps prose tight so readers can see for themselves how environmental numbers translate into real-world consequences.

Hannah Knowles covers environment and climate for The Washington Post, and she stands out for treating climate as a story about politics, law and power. She brings a strong background in national politics, courts and data-driven reporting to stories about water scarcity, erosion, coastal homes and the people and communities facing environmental strain. Her work tracks how policy, budgets, zoning, insurance and court rulings shape who benefits and who bears the cost. She has covered a federal solar program and a court order to restore grant funding. She has also written investigations, including reporting based on confidential communications, and analytical pieces on campaigns, party debates and voter shifts. Her reporting is methodical, document-based and grounded in residents, local officials and the practical details of wells, aquifers and supply systems.

Inayat Singh is a climate reporter at CBC News whose work stands out for explaining how science, energy policy and markets interact to shape real-world climate risk. He focuses on Canadian energy policy, pipelines and clean power, probing who pays for large-scale emissions cuts and how infrastructure choices affect Canada’s climate footprint. His reporting follows pipeline politics into Asian markets, high-profile investment summits and the push to mobilize private finance for clean energy. Singh’s coverage of climate feedbacks uses studies and emission models to show how wildfires, permafrost thaw and peatlands amplify warming. He reports on species and places in a warming world, from ski resorts to frogs, penguins and hurricanes, and examines climate solutions and conservation with data-driven, explanatory storytelling that tests whether proposed measures deliver measurable change.

James Paracy is a digital-first reporter with CTV News focused on real-time coverage of environmental risk and breaking events. He covers fast-moving threats in British Columbia, including wildfires, extreme weather and climate-related risk, with clear timelines and concrete impacts. On his environment beat he reports on wildfires, evacuations and emergency measures, tracking how changing fire behaviour leads to alerts and orders for residents. He also covers longer-range climate and weather threats such as Super El Niño drought risk, linking forecast science to everyday pressure on communities. His breaking news work uses the same live digital update tools for incidents like a fishing boat sinking and major events such as Belgium’s World Cup match against New Zealand at B.C. Place. His live blogs and recaps use quick updates, short paragraphs and time stamps, grounded in official information.

Joseph Bernacki is a videojournalist with CTV News whose environment reporting is rooted in the day-to-day pressures facing people and institutions in Manitoba. He links extreme weather, energy policy and local infrastructure to how residents work, travel and access essential services, blending environmental themes with community, justice and labour coverage. His stories move quickly from storms and heat waves to the effects on homes, roads, public safety and vulnerable residents. He reports on energy policy and solar power, showing how utility pricing and regulation shape clean technology decisions. He covers community services, accessibility, crime, courts and labour relations, focusing on institutional actions and their impact on ordinary people. He works primarily in video, shooting, interviewing, editing and writing his own pieces, and previously reported for local outlets including Winnipeg Free Press, Canstar Community News, the Brandon Sun and The Headliner.

Kalin Mitchell stands out for turning changing weather systems into clear, practical guidance. He is chief meteorologist for CTV Atlantic, where he covers rain, flooding, long-duration storms, heat, humidity, severe thunderstorms, fire conditions, seasonal shifts, and outdoor planning. His forecasts focus on timing, intensity, location, and safety, from hour by hour through day by day. He explains humidex values, storm structure, jet stream changes, El Niño, eclipses, heat lightning, weather records, and warning systems in plain language. He also tracks campfire conditions, fall colours, and how rain affects fire risk. His work combines precise forecasts with context on records, hazards, and when conditions may improve. He has more than a decade of experience producing and presenting forecasts across varied settings and spent around ten years with CBC.

Lauren Krugel covers how energy, climate policy and the economy affect businesses and communities for The Canadian Press. Her beat centres on energy policy, carbon pricing, investment, oil and gas, pipelines and carbon capture. She tracks how government measures, industry strategies and global markets shape Canada’s energy transition. Her reporting examines industrial carbon pricing, tax incentives, investment plans, pipeline capacity, fuel prices, gas infrastructure and the Pathways carbon capture project. She also covers energy security, market access, farmers, rural communities and the economic pressures facing producers. Notable work includes reporting on a possible Canada–EU energy alliance, Trans Mountain, TC Energy’s expansion plans and the Alberta–Ottawa Pathways agreement. She explains technical policy and operational details in clear terms, focusing on government action, company responses, costs, benefits and effects on workers, consumers and communities.

Leah Borts-Kuperman is an environmental journalist who stands out for tightly linking contamination and policy to the health of specific communities. She reports for The Narwhal and freelances for outlets including Canada’s National Observer, The Walrus, Future of Good, Environmental Health News, Circle of Blue and Great Lakes Now. Her beat spans industrial pollution, military infrastructure and housing, water contamination, PFAS and road salt, and Indigenous stewardship and land repair, with a particular emphasis on northern Ontario. She reports through long investigations, features and explainers that combine deep document review with interviews from affected workers, residents and experts. Her work has earned national recognition, including a Canadian Online Publishing Awards finalist for investigative reporting and a Gold medal for solutions-focused storytelling.

Libby Gray is a reporter for 650 CKOM who links environment, economy, public safety and culture to everyday life in Saskatoon and across Saskatchewan. She moves between breaking news, policy stories and community features, keeping the impact on residents and businesses at the centre. Her environmental work covers heat waves, grass fires and solar projects as both immediate public-safety issues and longer-term infrastructure and energy stories. She tracks major projects, tariffs, trade deals and urban development, tying investment and policy to jobs and local markets. Her crime and public-safety reporting focuses on child exploitation cases, financial scams and First Nations health care, highlighting institutional accountability and vulnerable groups. She also covers arts and events, from Indigenous designs at Country Music Week to local parades, with clear explanation and on-the-ground detail.

Lindsay Sample is B.C. bureau chief at The Narwhal and stands out for rigorous environmental reporting that connects climate science, resource development and ecological disruption to everyday life. She leads coverage across the province and also reports and edits stories grounded in place and lived experience. Her beat includes extreme heat, climate risk, fossil fuel projects, mining, industrial impacts, rivers, forests, wetlands and migratory birds. Her work has examined future heat waves, LNG Canada’s flaring record and the Roberts Bank Terminal 2 expansion. She favours explanatory, data-driven reporting that is deeply reported, investigative and accessible, with a focus on environmental limits, regulatory scrutiny and community response. She also guides a team of reporters and supports complex, solutions-focused journalism.

Marco Chown Oved is a climate change reporter at the Toronto Star whose work tests practical climate solutions against real-world costs, safety and policy. He covers heat pumps, rooftop solar panels, electric vehicles, energy systems and the effects of the transition on workers, industries and regional economies. He also reports on wildfires, regulatory gaps, corporate accountability and the risks of climate technologies. His work links household decisions, business behaviour and government action, using data analysis, investigations and on-the-ground reporting. He has written about oilpatch workers moving into geothermal projects, renewable power prices, Tesla safety and subsidies, and wildfire preparedness. He hosts the Small Things Big Climate podcast, which explains climate choices and their limits. He also reports through immersive methods, including wildland firefighter certification for a wildfire series.

Marsha McLeod is an investigative reporter at the Winnipeg Free Press who examines how institutions fail to protect people. Her work covers police accountability, inquests into fatal police shootings, government and corporate decisions, child protection, online exploitation, residential-school records, Indigenous commitments, health risks, correctional care, fentanyl, plasma donations and dangerous heat. She uses court records, data, public documents, expert testimony and interviews with people most affected to connect individual cases to systemic problems. Her four-part investigation “The Inquest Files” examined two decades of records on delayed, narrow inquests. She has written for TVO.org, Xtra Magazine, The Atlantic, Investigative Post and The Trace, and covered the federal government for a national newspaper’s parliamentary bureau. She joined the Free Press in 2023. Her work has received recognition from the Digital Publishing Awards and the Canadian Association of Journalists. In 2024, she won the CJF Jackman Award for Excellence in Journalism.

Maxine Joselow is distinct for showing how climate and environmental rules translate into concrete changes for communities, landscapes and public institutions. She covers climate change and the environment for The New York Times, with a focus on climate policy and politics. Her core beat is climate and environmental regulation inside federal agencies, explaining proposals at the Environmental Protection Agency and how technical rule changes affect emissions, public health and democratic participation. She also tracks how political priorities reshape national parks, public lands, wildfire research and ocean and forest monitoring. Her reporting follows state–federal clashes over endangered species, California’s climate policies and clean ship rules, connecting legal strategy, agency action and political messaging. Previously she covered climate change and the environment for The Washington Post, helped launch a daily climate newsletter and reported for an environmental news outlet focused on energy and climate issues.

Michelle Gamage reports at the intersection of health, environment and local research, tracing how policy and industry decisions turn into everyday risk. She is a health reporter with The Tyee and a freelance environmental journalist whose work also appears on CHEK News and Hakai Magazine. Her beat includes climate stress on health systems and infrastructure, public health threats like infectious syphilis, toxic drug supply and harm reduction, and underregulated industrial activity in small communities. She focuses on regulatory gaps, risk mapping and environmental justice, often drawing on local research, epidemiological data and modelling to explain complex science in plain language. Her long-form, solutions-focused reporting pairs expert sources and data with on-the-ground detail, emphasizing how research and policy can be turned into concrete protections for patients, families, communities and ecosystems.

Nick Ferris is a climate correspondent at The Independent whose reporting tracks how global climate change intersects with aid, finance and political power. He focuses on how the climate crisis reshapes development and humanitarian work in sub-Saharan Africa and the wider developing world, with coverage for The Independent’s Rethinking Global Aid project. His work examines aid cuts, shifting donor priorities and the politics of which lives and regions are treated as a priority. He reports on climate finance and corporate behaviour, scrutinising banks, investors and companies as they respond to climate risks and extreme weather. Ferris highlights underreported climate stories through detailed case studies and direct testimony. His reporting is data-led, drawing on experience as a climate and energy data journalist at the New Statesman and Carbon Pulse, and he combines narrative reporting with close analysis of policy, funding and business decisions.

Nicole Mortillaro is a senior science reporter at CBC News who connects climate change, extreme weather and scientific research to people, wildlife and daily life. She covers climate risk, heat, wildfires, hurricanes, El Niño, ocean circulation, climate-related health risks, climate migration, ecosystems and environmental policy. She also reports on space, astronomy and wider science, reflecting her long-standing interest in the night sky and planetary science. Her work explains complex systems in clear, accessible terms, linking evidence and scientific methods to practical effects on communities, infrastructure and the natural world. She has written analytical stories on high-emissions lifestyles, electric vehicles, wildlife management and the role of human-caused warming in disasters. She is editor of the Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada and the author of several books. In 2021, she won an international science journalism award for an audio special on the history and future of Black people in science and medicine. Earlier, she covered science, environment and weather at another major broadcaster.

Noah Haggerty is an environment and science reporter who follows Western wildfires from first flames through cleanup, contamination and recovery, asking how fire reshapes land, water and communities. He reports for the Los Angeles Times, focused on wildfire in the American West and the environmental crises that follow. He brings a physics research background to coverage that turns complex science and policy into clear reporting grounded in field work. His core work tracks major fires, evacuation and firefight challenges, debris removal, rebuilding and questions about land use, housing in fire-prone areas and fire management limits. He reports on fire-related pollution, soil contamination, testing regimes and cleanup standards, staying close to residents while drawing on scientists and regulators. He also covers climate resilience, ecosystems, tribal stewardship, extreme heat, climate policy and everyday climate decisions, mixing long-form narratives, explanatory pieces and fast-turn news.

Rob Hutchins knits together ocean science, conservation policy and everyday ocean stories into news, features and audio that keep the state of the seas in clear view. He is a journalist at Oceanographic Magazine, where he focuses on how climate change, marine biodiversity and governance intersect in the ocean, turning scientific findings on currents, chemistry and deep‑sea processes into accessible, tightly written coverage. He reports on ocean climate, planetary boundaries and global ocean policy, including the Ocean Act, African pledges for sustainable ocean protection and the impacts of treaties and laws on coastal communities and enforcement. His biodiversity beat spans new species from missions like Ocean Census, recovery stories such as the green sea turtle, and contamination issues like microplastics in manta rays. He also hosts The Ocean News Podcast, co‑anchors Week in Review, conducts interviews and covers exhibitions and grassroots campaigns.

Tara Carman is a senior reporter with CBC British Columbia whose work stands out for tracing how climate, technology and public policy land in everyday costs and risks. She focuses on the real-world effects of extreme weather, resource projects and trade policy on household budgets, community safety and long-term risk. She also reports on health, youth, rights and major projects, with a steady eye on who bears the consequences. Her work draws on data, interviews and documents, and she writes in clear prose that favors evidence, trendlines and concrete impacts over abstract debate. Her reporting has covered wildfire smoke, flood and heat costs, liquor and housing pressures, the Ksi Lisims LNG project, Indigenous rights legislation, FIFA World Cup modelling, Meta and youth mental health, overnight texting for mental health help, school illness spikes, daylight saving time, smart glasses privacy and assisted death in faith-based facilities.

Taylor C. Noakes is an investigative journalist with DeSmog who maps how Canada’s fossil fuel lobby shapes politics, finance, technology, media, and public debate. He focuses on greenwashing, astroturf campaigns, and industry-backed false solutions such as carbon capture, hydrogen, and liquefied natural gas. A public historian by training, he brings archival depth and a systems view to coverage of Canada’s oil and gas sector and its influence on policy. He reports on who is in the room when climate policy is made, tracking lobbyists, party networks, advisory panels, and trade groups. His beat includes carbon capture pipelines, energy conferences, climate communications, pension fund and bank exposure to fossil fuels, and ties between Big Oil and Big Tech. He also writes on energy economics and political influence for magazines such as The Walrus, Jacobin, Cult MTL, and the National Observer.

Tiffany Crawford treats climate and environmental stories as breaking news, covering ecological risks as urgent daily events. She is a reporter at the Vancouver Sun, where she has worked since 2009, and is also listed as a reporter for The Province in municipal records. Her beat centers on climate change, ecology and everyday life, focusing on how environmental risks intersect with construction, infrastructure and the places people live and work. She reports through news roundups, focused features and accessible coverage of scientific fieldwork, including snowpack core testing and sustainability research on embodied carbon and building practices. Urban environmental quality, water, pollution and infrastructure are recurring subjects, alongside public services, social policy, child care fees and emerging issues such as psychedelic education. She also handles breaking news and has contributed local reporting to national coverage of the Tumbler Ridge shooter case and related government responses.

Tom Bennett is a senior BBC News journalist who makes complex environmental emergencies easy to read with maps, satellite imagery and graphics. He covers international stories, with a recurring focus on climate-driven wildfires, air quality crises and how authorities respond. His work tracks European and Los Angeles fires, Canada’s smoke plumes and earlier California and Oregon wildfire seasons, showing where blazes burn, how large they are, who is at risk and what damage they cause. He also reports on pollution alerts, evacuation routes and firefighting deployments. His background in documentary filmmaking and international reporting shapes clear, data-led coverage with on-the-ground context from global hotspots.