Environment Journalistsin the UK

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 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 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 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.

Angela Giuffrida is a Rome correspondent for the Guardian and the Observer who reports on how climate, tourism, migration, labour and justice intersect in Italy and across Europe. She has more than 16 years of experience as a journalist and editor. Her environment beat focuses on climate events, wildfires, extreme weather and natural hazards, using concrete crises to show social and economic consequences. She covers tourism and overtourism as structural issues, linking visitor numbers, local politics, urban management and environmental strain. Her work on Italian politics and migration tracks how border and asylum rhetoric becomes policy and shifts Europe to the right. She also reports on courts, workplace safety and historical accountability, examining the human cost of corporate and policy decisions. She works across formats, from breaking news and analytical pieces to collaborative briefings and video explainers.

Arjun Joshi is a reporter on India’s clean energy transition who focuses on how markets, policy, and grid operations shape the shift to renewables. He works at Mercom India, covering solar, wind, storage, and grid infrastructure as more clean power is added to the system. His reporting stresses data, market structures, rules, incentives, and system design over broad environmental themes or standalone project announcements. He writes on policy frameworks, corporate energy strategy, rooftop and commercial solar, utility-scale wind tenders, and grid security issues such as solar curtailment. He also covers corporate strategy, capital flows, market performance, and cleantech innovation, including exchanges, listings, and startup activity. A professional profile cites thousands of stories on renewables and electric vehicles, showing the depth and continuity of his beat.

Barra Best links day-to-day weather coverage with longer-running stories about climate and the natural world, using data, clear definitions and visual storytelling to make complex patterns easy to follow. He works across the BBC’s news, weather and documentary output, presenting forecasts when the weather makes headlines and fronting environmental series that follow how landscapes and species are changing over time. His news beat is heatwaves, records and weather data across Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, focusing on how current conditions compare with historic extremes, official heatwave thresholds, warning systems and their impacts on people and infrastructure. He also develops documentary series on landscapes, communities, conservation and native species, including award-winning programmes, and is a regular live broadcaster and event host on climate and science communication.

Bethan McKernan is a Guardian reporter whose work links hard politics and conflict to the lived impact of climate and environmental change, particularly in the UK. On the environment beat, she focuses on how extreme weather and climate stress are transforming landscapes and daily life, including successive UK heatwaves turning the “green and pleasant land” brown. She frames climate change through visible shifts in fields, parks and public spaces, using soil, vegetation and water as entry points into questions of resilience and adaptation. Alongside this, she has a substantial track record covering Middle East conflicts and political power struggles, including Israel and Palestine, ceasefire developments in Gaza and the “Qatargate” scandal. Her investigative reporting follows weapons and policy decisions to people affected on the ground, and more recently has expanded to UK domestic politics and devolution with a focus on Wales.

Brian Dillon is an audience writer at the Daily Express who connects Net Zero politics with practical advice on gardening, plant care and everyday sustainability. He covers environment and climate issues, focusing on how energy and sustainability policies affect safety, comfort and daily routines. His work also includes advice on growing healthier, more colourful roses and making effective planting choices. He tests household tips through simple experiments, such as comparing bananas stored in a refrigerator and a kitchen cupboard, then reports clear results in plain language. Dillon combines urgent, direct climate reporting with accessible service journalism. He uses expert commentary for gardening stories and personal testing for consumer advice, keeping his coverage focused on specific actions and outcomes readers can see, taste or apply at home.

Charles Clover is an environmental journalist focused on overfishing, ocean recovery and the decisions that shape marine ecosystems. He writes for the Daily Telegraph on the environment, covering fisheries policy, illegal catches, climate agreements, agriculture, food systems, polluted waters and wider ecological damage. He was formerly environment editor of the Daily Telegraph and a columnist for the Sunday Times. His book The End of the Line examined overfishing as a global problem. He co-founded the Blue Marine Foundation, which promotes marine reserves and sustainable fishing. His reporting links damage to nature with failures by governments, regulators and industry. He uses data, scientific reports and on-the-ground examples, combining clear explanation with direct criticism. He presses for stronger enforcement, reform, sustainable sourcing and the restoration of ecosystems, often framing marine protection as rewilding the sea.

Chiranjeevi Kulkarni is an environment journalist and special correspondent at Deccan Herald who traces how climate, forests and environmental governance translate into concrete impacts on people and landscapes. He reports on forests, climate change, development, sustainability and policy, with a steady focus on accountability and evidence from scientific studies and official records. His climate coverage follows warming temperatures, rising seas, extreme weather, heat stress and disaster management gaps, showing how they reshape lives, infrastructure and vulnerable communities. A second strand of his work covers forests, wildlife and contested land, including diversion of forest land, hydropower projects, species assessment, poaching and industrial land disputes. He also examines pollution, regulation and scams in recycling, and uses structured interviews, scientific studies and regulatory records to ground stories in verifiable data and on-the-ground experience.

Christian Ernhede tracks how EU environmental and climate rules take shape and affect industry and energy systems. He is a senior correspondent on EU environmental policy for ENDS Europe, covering regulatory proposals, negotiations and implementation across climate, energy and pollution. His reporting focuses on methane emissions, greenhouse gases, power-to-gas, hydrogen, storage, grid integration and the rules governing new energy technologies. He explains how EU directives, regulations and reforms create obligations for companies and authorities. His work has appeared in ENDS Europe, Bilaterals, The Ends Report and The Brussels Times. He writes for environmental and energy professionals, tracing legislative timelines, EU institutional roles and unresolved regulatory risks. His approach is analysis-led and policy-focused, linking climate targets to legal mechanisms, compliance requirements and the practical effects on regulated sectors.

Damian Carrington is the Guardian’s environment editor, known for connecting climate science to clear human and global risks. He covers the climate crisis, energy, fossil fuels, methane leaks, pollution, biodiversity loss, ecosystem damage and coastal flooding. His reporting examines subjects from El Niño and heat-related deaths to net zero politics, oil profits, peatlands, microplastics and more than 1,000 super-emitting methane leaks. He links projections, mortality estimates, historical context and policy decisions to show how climate risk builds over time. He also reports on UK impacts, public preparedness and media climate denial. His work combines exclusives, long-form reporting, commentary, newsletters and audio/video. He joined the Guardian in 2008 after staff roles in science and digital journalism at the Financial Times, New Scientist and BBC News Online. He favours evidence-rich reporting that connects research, policy and human impact.

Damien Gayle is the Guardian’s environment correspondent, and his reporting stands out for treating climate justice, protest and power as the core of the beat. He covers climate action, activism and the politics of climate breakdown, with a focus on policing, social inequality, militarisation and global negotiations. He has tracked Just Stop Oil since its founding, including its blockades, legal pressure and eventual disbanding, and he frames climate protest as a central story, not a side issue. He also writes explanatory pieces on climate science, extreme weather, emissions and everyday environmental trade-offs, and appears in audio and video formats. Before specialising in environment reporting, he was a general news reporter focused on criminal justice and policing.

Daniel Ben-David is a senior reporter who connects environmental risk, global news and public narratives to their impact on Jewish communities and Israel, with a recurring focus on safety, bias and institutional response. He works across news and community coverage at the Jewish Chronicle. His reporting spans incidents targeting visibly Jewish individuals, attacks on communal institutions, and investigations into how media and cultural figures discuss Israel and antisemitism. He covers extreme heat and wildfire risk in Israel as part of a wider security and resilience picture, using data and official warnings to show how authorities prepare for record temperatures, fire outbreaks and pressure on infrastructure and agriculture. He also reports on community politics and international Jewish life, treating local developments and diaspora mobilisation as serious news tied to antisemitism, Israel and Jewish identity.

Darin Graham is an award-winning climate journalist at Skift who covers how travel businesses respond to climate change. His beat spans airlines, hotels, tourism businesses, and destinations. He reports on aviation emissions, net-zero targets, new fuels, climate technology, airline policy, funding, and greenwashing. He examines how hotels cut food waste and emissions, reject fossil fuels, and manage climate risks such as extreme heat. He also covers storms, seaweed, and rising temperatures affecting tourism revenues, bookings, operations, recovery, and destination reputation. His reporting connects physical climate impacts, regulation, corporate behavior, costs, and market incentives. He tests climate claims against investment, emissions data, operational changes, lobbying, and advertising rulings, showing where travel companies are making real progress and where messaging may overstate it.

David Gregory-Kumar makes climate change tangible through local reporting on how it reshapes everyday life. He is a BBC science, environment and rural affairs correspondent working across television, online and radio. His beat covers extreme weather, drought, water, infrastructure, agriculture and rural affairs. He reports on floods, dry spells, heatwaves, fires, school closures, reservoirs, road surfaces, farming decisions, crop seasons and funding pressures. He has written about the blackcurrant harvest window almost halving, why road gritters are used in hot weather, and how a major fire destroyed 19 homes. He also presents programmes on farming and rural issues on radio and has covered technology and culture, including the return of Chuckie Egg. With more than 25 years of reporting, he combines field interviews, live explanation and science analysis. He uses clear language, specific numbers and local examples to explain complex environmental change.

David Vetter reports on climate change as a financial and systemic risk, not only an environmental issue. He is a climate writer and researcher who works for Forbes and runs The Climate Laundry newsletter. His beat covers climate science, energy, sustainability, insurance losses, food production, agriculture, soil carbon, ocean warming, supply chains, investment and the wider economy. He also reports on practical solutions, from hydroponics, digital identity and blockchain to vertical farms, smart toilets and soil-carbon biotechnology. His notable work includes Forbes stories on climate misinformation, a secret Cold War base in Greenland, wildfire evacuation and the economic cost of climate inaction. He connects field research, laboratory studies and policy, using science-based narratives, expert testimony and interviews to test whether ideas are scalable, economically viable and sustainable.

Elizabeth Meager connects climate and sustainability policy with the legal, regulatory and reporting frameworks that shape corporate behaviour. She is deputy editor at Sustainable Views, an ESG-focused intelligence service within the Financial Times Group, and leads coverage at the intersection of environmental issues, financial regulation and corporate governance. Her reporting draws on a decade of work on financial law and regulation and focuses on how climate and sustainability developments in the US and UK translate into obligations and risks for companies and investors. She explains ESG rules, corporate reporting and transition planning for a specialist audience, and treats sustainability as a risk discipline, examining climate-based legal, reputational and financial risks, PFAS regulation and climate litigation. She also reports on major events and diplomatic processes such as New York Climate Week, COP30 and AGM seasons, linking global climate politics to corporate strategy and investor pressure.

Emma Cole covers cycling where endurance sport meets the environment and athlete health. At Cyclist, she focuses on extreme heat, climate pressures, sustainability and their effects on road racing, including safety, tactics, training and event planning. She also writes for Cyclingnews, with past work in specialist cycling and outdoor titles. Her wider beat includes running, hiking, wildlife and climate-related themes. Cole reports on training, physiology and data-led performance, including strength work, female physiology, menstrual-cycle tracking, recovery and the role of technology. She interviews elite riders and team staff about form, resilience, career choices and organisational strategy. She also reviews tyres, heart-rate monitors and other equipment for weight, comfort, accuracy, battery life and real-world usefulness. Her work combines features, interviews and product analysis, linking science with athlete experience and practical choices.

Fiona Harvey focuses on how climate policy, law and economics translate into real environmental damage and political accountability, rather than treating the environment beat as isolated science stories. She is environment editor at the Guardian and has worked as a full-time environment writer since 2004, after more than a decade covering environmental issues for a major financial newspaper. Her reporting spans climate change, air pollution, biodiversity, ocean plastic, energy, aviation and European climate impacts, with a consistent emphasis on how these issues are governed, regulated and financed. She anchors coverage of climate policy and global negotiations in close reading of legal texts and summit outcomes, and tracks how international promises feed into domestic laws, energy planning and finance. Her work links extreme weather, ecosystem stress and infrastructure gaps to decisions by governments, companies and multilateral institutions.

Gavin Haines is distinguished by his weekly “What went right this week” roundups, which track practical progress in climate, energy, health, conservation, culture and society. He is an editor and reporter at Positive News, specialising in environmental reporting and solutions-focused journalism. His work examines how people, policies and technologies drive change, including electric vehicles, clean energy, urban air quality, river restoration, climate-resilient cities, railways and public transport. He also writes about travel, green journeys, places and urban change, alongside investigations, interviews, psychedelics, religion and human experience. Notable past publications include the BBC, Daily Telegraph, Independent, The i, National Geographic and Lonely Planet. He reports with observation, reported detail and clear context, foregrounding scientists, communities, policymakers and entrepreneurs and showing how specific actions produce credible results.

Georgina Rannard is a climate and science correspondent who turns detailed climate data and research into clear stories about how change is reshaping daily life, weather and the natural world. She works in the BBC News climate and science team across digital articles, radio programmes and TV explainers on global warming, biodiversity and environmental science. Her beat includes UK climate extremes, showing how once rare heat, rain and storms are becoming a new baseline that affects infrastructure, health and everyday life. She reports on nature and wildlife under strain, from orangutans and marine ecosystems to bees and pollinators, linking species impacts to wider economic and climate pressures. She covers how consumption, family choices and youth climate litigation shape emissions and justice, and follows frontier debates such as deep-sea mining and new climate research technologies.

Hannah Ritchie uses long-run data to test claims about environmental change and explain which solutions work. She is Deputy Editor and Science Outreach Lead at Our World in Data, where she has worked in research and editorial roles since 2017. Her beat covers energy, climate change, agriculture, food supply, land use, pollution, biodiversity, and related health risks. She writes about renewable power, nuclear energy, electric vehicles, heat pumps, carbon capture, geoengineering, deforestation, fish stocks, air pollution, disasters, mortality, and vaccines. She also covers wider global development, including immigration, technology, and political representation. Her notable books are Not the End of the World and Clearing the Air. She reports through charts, long-run statistics, and clear comparisons, quantifying environmental pressures, testing intuitive narratives, and showing how practical changes affect emissions, health, food security, and development.

Helena Horton is an environment reporter at the Guardian who investigates how politics and corporate decisions shape climate policy, nature protection and pollution. She covers farming, land use, nature recovery, water, drought, energy, regulation and labour conditions. Her reporting focuses on the effects of government choices on land, rivers, habitats, public health, farmers and workers. She has reported on post-Brexit farm subsidies, the weakening of environmental protections, drought across England, water industry oversight, the Net Zero Scrutiny Group, wind power claims, mosquitoes appearing in Iceland and Grand Theft Auto workers seeking union recognition. She uses leaked documents, exclusive data and fact-checking to break news and set the agenda. She also follows policy disputes over time, linking legal and corporate decisions to their effects on the ground.

Izzy Lepone is assistant editor at LocalGov, with a distinct focus on how council decisions on finance, planning and services translate into concrete impacts on communities and the environment. She covers council finance and tax, including how authorities raise and lose revenue from second homes and shifts between council tax and business rates. Her housing and planning coverage tracks how national policy frameworks are interpreted locally, linking land use, regeneration and the built environment. She reports on governance, powers and political leadership, from formal audits and “critical governance failings” to strengthened powers over betting and vape shops and emerging council leaders. She also writes on digital services, AI, infrastructure, mobile connectivity and climate commitments. Her work ranges from concise news to explanatory, case-study-led features, grounded in specific council examples and interventions.

James Darley connects corporate sustainability reporting with changes in the global energy system. He is editor of Energy Digital, a B2B energy magazine, after senior editorial roles that included responsibility for sustainability coverage. His beat spans ESG disclosures, clean energy infrastructure, geothermal and wind power, digital energy systems, virtual power plants, AI, battery storage, off-grid power, fleet electrification and cyber resilience for critical infrastructure. He also covers sustainable data centres, low-carbon marine transport and energy rankings. His reporting turns company disclosures into clear accounts of emissions, packaging, energy use, targets and operational changes. Features and interviews focus on practical effects for energy companies and customers. He links executive strategy to specific technologies, projects, investment decisions and environmental metrics through news, explainers, long-form features, rankings, interviews and survey-based reporting.

Jason Arunn Murugesu reports for the BBC’s North East and Cumbria news team, focusing on how environmental issues shape local politics, industry and daily life. His beat includes council climate pledges, net-zero targets, pollution, ecosystems, tree planting, nuclear waste and environmental science. He also covers community heritage, public services, justice and local institutions, including miners’ banners, cultural centres and detention systems. His notable work examines Sunderland and Barnsley councils’ climate decisions, crab deaths linked to pyridine pollution, a planned Tees Valley community forest, plutonium disposal funding and the return of a restored miners’ banner to a school. He explains complex science and regulation in plain terms. His reporting follows concrete decisions, votes, studies, funding and institutional pressures, showing how they affect people, landscapes and public spaces.

Joe Lo is news editor at Climate Home News, where he covers global climate diplomacy and the negotiations shaping climate policy. He follows UN climate talks, power dynamics, legal frameworks and the political trade-offs behind gridlock or breakthroughs, including disputes over adaptation finance and emissions cuts. He has a particular interest in how investment treaties, arbitration and investor rights affect coal phase-outs, renewable energy support and environmental regulation. His reporting connects specific disputes to wider questions about public budgets, energy planning and climate action. Before joining Climate Home News as a reporter in 2020, he covered container shipping, Scotland and British politics. His work has also appeared in the Guardian, Al Jazeera and Deutsche Welle. He reports through documents, multiple sources and relevant data, focusing on who benefits, who pays and how agreements are enforced.

John Schwartz covers climate change with a scientist’s eye and a reporter’s instinct for how it reshapes daily life, infrastructure and public policy. He works on The New York Times climate desk, drawing on more than three decades in journalism across national magazines, major newspapers and long service at the paper. His beat centers on climate science, extreme weather, environmental justice, corporate accountability and infrastructure under stress. He explains phenomena like El Niño, severe cold spells, hurricanes and wildfires in plain language while staying close to the evidence and scientific debate. Schwartz connects climate‑fueled disasters to levees, flood protection, bridges, ports and governance. His earlier work spans technology, the U.S. space program, legal affairs, obituaries and profiles of scientific figures. He now also teaches journalism and works on global sustainability topics in an academic setting.

Jonathan Watts connects environmental breakdown to the human and political forces driving it. He is the Guardian’s global environment editor, covering climate change, biodiversity loss, environmental justice, energy and resource use, with particular depth on East Asia and the Amazon. He is a founder of the Rainforest Journalism Fund and Sumaúma, and the author of books on China’s environmental trajectory and James Lovelock. His reporting links energy systems, consumption, emissions and industrial growth to climate outcomes, while his Amazon work focuses on Indigenous communities, environmental defenders, land conflict, logging, agribusiness and criminal economies. He combines frontline reporting, investigations, data and expert interviews with long-form features, Q&As and audio work. His foreign correspondence and coverage of global crises inform a clear, place-based view of planetary change and power.

Josephine Moulds is an award-winning investigative journalist who treats climate stories as finance stories first, tracing how banks, investors and insurers turn climate risk into profitable business while marketing climate leadership. She works on the Bureau of Investigative Journalism’s environment project examining banks, financial institutions and climate change, with a beat that sits between corporate finance and environmental harm. She reports on coal and other fossil fuel exposure in light of banks’ climate pledges, including investigations into HSBC, Barclays and a contentious oil and gas auction. Her work follows capital flows through climate finance, development finance and government-backed institutions, connecting them to human rights, governance and environmental justice. She has more than fifteen years of financial reporting at national newspapers, including in-house roles at the Guardian and the Telegraph and extensive freelance work for the Times, and now writes for outlets including the Bureau, the Guardian and Grist.

Justin Rowlatt is the BBC’s climate editor, the lead journalist on its climate story. He covers how global warming and the shift to new energy systems affect daily life and public policy. His beat spans extreme weather, climate science, energy costs, heat pumps, renewable infrastructure, wildlife and global climate diplomacy. He reports on record heat, drought, marine heatwaves and the science behind faster warming, while linking technical evidence to lived experience. He examines the tension between cheap, reliable power and decarbonisation, including heat pump targets, cement, pylons, solar farms and low-carbon homes. He covers United Nations climate summits, fossil fuel politics and the credibility of emissions pledges. He works across digital, television and radio, producing explanatory pieces, field reports, live commentary, high-profile interviews and a regular climate newsletter.

Karen McVeigh is a senior reporter at The Guardian whose defining work links ocean pollution and plastic waste to global systems and environmental justice. She has reported for the paper since 2006, including as a global development reporter and senior news reporter. She now focuses on the Seascape series, covering the state of the world’s oceans, plastics, waste colonialism, deep-sea mining, whaling, Antarctica, marine life and ocean governance. Her wider beat includes climate change, deforestation, global development and communities at risk. She has reported on UK plastic exports contaminating Turkey, corporate plastic footprints, a possible global plastics treaty, Ethiopia’s tree-planting campaign, language loss caused by rising seas, and farmed fish supply chains affecting Senegal. She works across investigations, news, features, newsletters and audio, combining field reporting, interviews and data to show how policy, industry and trade shape lived experience.

Kate Ravilious is a freelance science journalist whose distinct focus is on how earth, climate and weather shape everyday life and environmental change. She is a long‑standing Guardian science writer and a core voice behind the Weatherwatch column, where she uses short, research‑led pieces to explain shifting weather patterns, flash droughts, urban microclimates and climate‑driven infrastructure problems. She also writes Terrawatch, a Guardian column that explores the geology behind news stories, covering plate tectonics, mantle dynamics, natural hazards and their interaction with human systems. Her broader Guardian work includes “The science behind the news” and features on topics from sleep research to gene patents. Beyond the Guardian she writes for outlets such as New Scientist, Nature, Archaeology, Physics World and Cosmos, consistently translating specific studies and emerging risks into clear, practical insights on climate, hazards and landscapes.

Kevin Keane reports on how climate and energy decisions reshape industry, communities and jobs for the BBC. His beat covers climate policy, energy markets and rural affairs, from heavy industry, North Sea oil and gas, transport and agriculture to biodiversity. He examines how decarbonisation affects bills, employment, local landscapes and the shift from fossil fuels to green energy. His work has covered the Jackdaw gas field, Grangemouth’s refinery closure, US shale gas at the Ineos plant, Aberdeen’s failed hydrogen bus fleet, renewable grids in Orkney, offshore wind and plastics policy. He also reports on climate commitments, energy jobs and just transition plans. His reporting combines on-the-scene journalism, analysis and broadcast work. He explains technical subjects in plain language across digital, radio and television, including Good Morning Scotland, documentaries and UN climate conferences from COP23 onwards.

Kim Kyeong-pil stands out for connecting environment coverage to government decisions, energy markets, and corporate behavior. He writes for The Chosun Daily across the national, North Korea, and market and money desks. Environment is his anchor, but he covers crisis management, emergency response, energy security, resource policy, political accountability, and corporate governance. His reporting has examined extreme heatwaves, the Yongsan office move and the 2022 Halloween disaster, ministerial misconduct and apologies, cabinet nominations, minerals and AI talks with Tajikistan, oil price stability, and market stories on NEC and SpaceX. He uses numbers, official documents, and interviews to show how policy, business, and public safety shape each other.

Laura Paddison reports on how the climate crisis reshapes water, food systems, infrastructure and vulnerable communities. She is a senior climate writer at CNN, covering climate pollution, its practical effects and efforts to keep the planet habitable. Her work connects science, inequality and daily life. She has reported on global water bankruptcy, an off-balance water cycle, drought, floods, stressed infrastructure and threats to ocean monitoring. She also covers peatland wildfires, toxic smoke, microalgae blooms, melting mountains and the risks of sudden floods and landslides. Her reporting examines geoengineering and chemical exposure, including a project using wristbands to track pollutants. Before CNN, she covered environment and climate at other outlets, focusing on oceans and food systems. She explains physical processes, brings in scientists and links local events to wider patterns of heat, rainfall and ecological stress.

Laura Potter turns environmental and lifestyle pressures into practical, expert-led guides that help people cope with climate-driven extremes and everyday discomforts. She is a freelance writer, content creator and editor whose work sits at the intersection of climate, health and lifestyle. Her Guardian author page lists well over 190 pieces, showing a sustained output of features and guides. Potter covers the environment through lived experience, focusing on heat, weather and seasonal changes, and what they mean for how people sleep, work, travel and stay safe. She specialises in heatwave resilience and summer problem-solving, using interviews with frontline and specialist voices to build structured, checklist-style advice. Drawing on a long history of health, fitness, style and weekend magazine writing, she links climate impacts to personal health, family routines and home life, with clear, solution-focused articles built around concrete next steps.

Laurie Laybourn is an award-winning researcher, author and strategist whose defining focus is systemic climate “doom loops” and how accelerating climate and nature risks destabilise societies and economies. He writes commentary for The Guardian on strategic climate risks, using political leadership, economic systems and security pressures as entry points to wider feedback systems. His pieces track how environmental shocks, policy choices and economic stress interact, with an analytical tone that concentrates on structures, incentives and scenario-based risk analysis. He examines climate-stressed economic models, financial stability, health systems, food and energy security, and the cascading impacts of overshoot and nature loss. His research, fellowships and leadership of the Strategic Climate Risks Initiative, as well as his Overshoot podcast documentary, feed into journalism that treats climate and nature loss as core drivers of complex risk systems.

Liam Gilliver covers climate through its effects on travel, places and everyday life. He is an environment reporter at Euronews, focusing on climate impacts, risks and adaptation across Europe, as well as policy, emissions, infrastructure and the economic effects of cutting greenhouse gases. His reporting examines heat stress, health, labour conditions, transport, tourism, destinations and mobility, linking scientific evidence to lived experience. He also compares national progress against European climate targets and tests whether policies work in practice. NCTJ-trained and specialising in travel and environmental reporting, Gilliver aims to make complex climate stories accessible to broad audiences. His past bylines include the Mirror, the Independent, the i and the Daily Star. He uses clear explainers, concise structure, maps, case studies, figures and practical examples.

Maryam Zakir-Hussain is a reporter at The Independent who makes fast-moving news concrete by showing how policy, conflict and environmental events affect daily life. She covers national and international news, politics, crime, meteorology, science and sport, with a real beat in the consequences of government decisions, war, severe weather and household costs. Her work includes youth justice reforms, defence spending, Greenpeace, by-elections, Ukraine and Russia, war crimes allegations, the Falkland Islands, heatwaves, weather alerts, railway infrastructure and Martin Lewis’s money advice. She has also written for The Independent on science, business, education and sports news. She reports in plain language, using specific figures, timings, casualty counts and familiar examples. Her focus is on clear stakes, practical information and who is affected.

Matt Brundrett is a digital editor and journalist covering how construction, energy and environmental pressures affect the built environment. He works across Planning, Building & Construction Today and BIM Today, reporting on building performance, low-carbon heat, cooling demand, energy resilience, nuclear, grid decarbonisation, building safety, regulation, workforce skills and sector performance. His work examines the practical effects of policy, technology and legal change on contractors, asset owners and engineering firms. He covers projects such as geothermal power, Sizewell C, flexible data centres and Small Modular Reactors. He combines news, analysis, features, interviews and expert-led content, translating technical and regulatory developments into clear industry implications. He joined the masthead in July 2024 after working as an assistant editor at Innovation News Network. His writing has also appeared on the University of Sheffield’s History Matters blog.

Matt McGrath is an environment correspondent at the BBC known for turning complex climate science and policy into clear stories about how people, places and economies are changing. He covers climate change, extreme heat, everyday impacts, global climate negotiations, UN climate science, biodiversity, energy and environmental policy. His reporting links global agreements and scientific assessments to daily experiences such as heatwaves, air conditioning, energy use and river and forest health. He has more than a decade of BBC environment and climate reporting and has received a major international award for environmental communication. His work includes explainers on COP summits and UN assessments, scrutiny of aviation emissions and carbon accounting, and coverage of water quality, mangrove recovery and household renewables. With a long background in science and technology reporting, he focuses on clarity, accuracy and practical consequences.

Matteo Civillini is an accountability reporter at Climate Home News specialising in climate finance, carbon markets and UN climate diplomacy. He tracks how political and financial interests shape climate negotiations, pledges and the treatment of climate science. His reporting covers fossil fuel influence in UN talks, disputes over scientific evidence, NGO responses, carbon-market design and loopholes in climate commitments. He uses cross-border investigations and data-driven methods to follow money and power through the climate system. Before focusing on climate, he investigated organised crime, money laundering and corruption at BBC World News and Irpimedia. His work has appeared in National Geographic, the Observer and OCCRP, among other publications. His investigations have been shortlisted for international awards and received an Amnesty International Media Award in 2021. He reports through detailed investigations of financial networks, negotiating battles and closed-door decisions.

Matthew Taylor’s most distinctive work traces climate responsibility from fossil fuel companies to global emissions, lobbying networks and pollution crises. He is an environment correspondent at the Guardian, covering energy and the environment through investigations into corporate responsibility, carbon emissions, plastics, air pollution and planned “carbon bombs”. He also reports on climate impacts, including heatwaves, flooding, ecosystem stress and risks to communities. His work includes the Polluters project, which linked 20 fossil fuel companies to about one-third of global carbon output, and a global analysis of oil and gas projects that could lock in vast future emissions. He covers climate policy, energy choices and resilience, including flood-proofing homes and practical measures for adapting to heat. He combines data-heavy investigations, academic analysis, daily reporting and accessible guidance, often working with reporters, data journalists, editors and experts.

Matthew Taylor is an environment correspondent at the Guardian known for accountability-driven reporting on how climate decisions affect institutions, finance and everyday life. He covers climate protest movements, fossil fuel expansion, carbon bombs, climate finance, schools, transport projects and the public framing of the climate emergency. His reporting links government, corporate and public-body decisions to environmental consequences. He works across hard news and investigations, using figures, timelines and clear explanations to show risk, responsibility and impact. He assesses protests by their demands and results, tracks whether institutions meet climate commitments, and examines how policies shape public debate. His notable work includes investigations into planned oil and gas projects, banks funding carbon bombs, overheating classrooms and a proposed River Thames road tunnel. He was shortlisted for Environment Journalist of the Year at the Press Awards.

Mehri Khosravi covers the intersection of heat, housing and inequality at The Independent. She focuses on overheating, heatwaves, cooling without air conditioning, energy demand, infrastructure stress and the unequal exposure created by poorly performing homes. As an energy and carbon senior research fellow at a university sustainability research institute, she draws on research into urban overheating, housing performance and future city risk. Her reporting connects rising temperatures with building design, urban density, hard surfaces, green space and housing standards. She explains technical research in short, clear sentences and turns it into practical advice, including ventilation, shading and reducing internal heat sources. She treats overheating as a structural housing and planning problem, not simply a matter of comfort. Her work also examines the cooling divide, showing how reliance on air conditioning can deepen inequality while increasing energy demand.

Melissa Hobson is a marine science and conservation writer who uses charismatic marine animals, new research, rare footage and unusual wildlife events to explain change in the ocean. She writes features and explainers for BBC Wildlife Magazine and other science and conservation outlets, with past work for BBC Countryfile, National Geographic, New Scientist and the Guardian. Her beat covers marine conservation, whale and shark behaviour, animal communication, climate impacts, sustainability and ocean-focused travel. She often focuses on whales, orcas, whale sharks, pilot whales and other marine megafauna, while also reporting on coral bleaching, Antarctica, sardine runs and conservation projects. Her stories begin with a striking animal, recording or event, then unpack the science, ecological risks and conservation response in clear, explanatory language.

Miguel Guevara covers how climate and weather shape daily life in the desert for The Desert Sun. His work on Palm Springs summers and extreme heat treats environmental conditions as part of local life, not just a backdrop. He writes about how residents understand, endure, defend, and even embrace long, hot days. His subjects include heat, daily routines, comfort, identity, habit, and the choices people make about when and how to be outside. Guevara starts with a specific place and climate reality, then builds toward broader questions about place and lifestyle. He anchors his reporting in recognizable experiences, such as stepping into the heat, planning days around the temperature, and working around extreme conditions. He presents heat as something people learn to live with rather than as an abstract climate statistic.

Molly Lempriere connects climate policy to the practical mechanics of power systems and decarbonisation. She is section editor for policy at Carbon Brief, covering clean power, climate targets, transport, industry, electric vehicles, energy markets and UN climate negotiations. Her reporting examines how governments can deliver largely decarbonised power by 2030, including the investment, grid changes and reliability challenges involved. She also covers how heatwaves affect nuclear, gas, wind and solar generation, and how adaptation measures shape infrastructure and services. Her work uses data, official forecasts and independent assessments to test climate pledges against measurable outcomes. She writes analysis, factchecks, explainers and the DeBriefed newsletter, and contributes to webinars on COP outcomes. She was previously UK editor at Solar Media and senior editor for the energy sector at Verdict Media.

Nazaneen Ghaffar is a weather reporter at The New York Times who turns complex meteorological data into clear coverage of extreme and disruptive weather. She reports on storms, heat waves, flooding, tropical systems, cyclones, typhoons and dust storms, with a focus on timing, intensity, forecast confidence and practical risks. Her work explains what is happening and what people can expect in the hours and days ahead. She also writes historical features and detailed explainers on storm structure, pressure patterns, jet streams and weather’s role in major events. Before joining The New York Times in 2024, she reported on weather for major broadcasters and news organizations, including work covering Hurricane Patricia, Hurricane Sandy and Typhoon Mangkhut. She brings nearly two decades of specialist reporting and formal meteorological training to clear, accurate, service-oriented coverage grounded in data.

Neil Everitt is a specialist cooling and refrigeration journalist who edits The Cooling Post, a daily online magazine covering air conditioning, refrigeration and heat pumps. His distinct focus is refrigerants, regulation and illegal trade flows, with reporting on how policy, enforcement and industry practice affect cooling systems. He covers corporate news, technology, standards, products, market developments, building regulations and climate resilience. His work examines impacts on manufacturers, installers, equipment selection, maintenance and supply chains. He has more than 40 years in heating, ventilating, air conditioning and refrigeration journalism. Before The Cooling Post, he was assistant editor and editor of Heating & Ventilating Review for over 12 years and editor of Air Conditioning & Refrigeration News for more than 20 years. He combines daily news with investigations and long-view, technically detailed analysis. He is a member of the Institute of Refrigeration.

Oliver Balch reports on how businesses respond to climate, sustainability and social pressures. He is an independent journalist and writer specialising in the role of business in society, and currently contributes to Reuters and other international outlets. His real beat includes corporate climate strategy, climate disclosure, net-zero standards, environmental regulation, labour risk, deforestation, forced labour, workplace heat stress, gender equity and sustainability storytelling. He has also written for national newspapers and specialist sustainability publications. His reporting connects policy, investor expectations and board decisions with effects on workers, supply chains, brands and communities. He covers legal battles, commodity supply chains, land-use data, traceability, workplace safety and climate technology. He reports through executive voices, policy detail, case-led stories and operational examples, examining how companies exercise power and responsibility.

Patrick Jowett tracks how solar and storage markets, technology and policy decisions combine to reshape electricity systems and prices. He is an editor at pv magazine, writing across global and regional editions with a focus on markets and policy, applications and installations, and research and development in photovoltaics. He covers solar deployment across utility-scale projects and distributed generation, tying project and technology detail back to market outcomes and regulatory frameworks. His work follows solar prices, policy shifts and support schemes, and links fuel dynamics to power markets. He reports on European solar generation records, changing subsidies, national rollout strategies and emerging markets where regulatory frameworks and investment climates shape growth. He adds technical detail on evolving PV architectures, performance and operations, and writes guidance for homeowners and project stakeholders, extending his market and practical lens to energy storage topics.

Patrick Pester is a trending news writer at Live Science who turns striking discoveries into clear accounts of their real-world effects. He covers climate change, oceans, extreme events, wildlife, fossils, biodiversity, evolution, unusual phenomena, human remains and frontier technology. His stories range from Super El Niño forecasts and sea-level rise to deep-sea creatures, a rare orange shark, a demon cavefish, ancient fossils and AI safety. He also examines ghost encounters through science and reports on the sale of human remains. Pester retrained as a journalist after working in zoos and wildlife conservation. His work has appeared in BBC Science Focus and Scientific American. He began in science journalism in 2020 and reports quickly in accessible, evidence-based formats, connecting new research to everyday life while retaining the scientific detail.

Petra Hoyer Millar is editor of The Dirt and focuses on the point where gardening, horticulture and climate stress meet. She writes on heatwaves, drought, wildlife decline and water management through front gardens, public landscapes and industry practice, with a practical, on-the-ground style shaped by environmental reporting and horticultural training. Her coverage includes the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival and Royal Windsor Flower Show, along with brands, tools and trade issues such as Elho’s shift to recycled materials and the design of secateurs. She also reports on hedgehog conservation, naturalistic planting and prominent gardens and estates, including Waddesdon Manor and Eythrope. She contributes to specialist gardening magazines and trade titles.

Sandra Laville is distinct for treating water, rivers and environmental damage as systems and accountability stories. She is environment correspondent at the Guardian and a long-serving reporter with bylines dating to the mid-2000s. Her beat covers privatised water companies, regulation, sewage pollution, drought, river health, climate pledges, fossil fuels, land management and ecological recovery. She links corporate finance, political decisions, infrastructure and enforcement to effects on ecosystems, public health and communities. Her work combines investigations with daily news and policy reporting. She has reported on water industry scandals, toxic algae, dry rivers, hedge laying and calls to stop new North Sea oil drilling. Earlier, she covered crime, policing, justice and child sexual abuse investigations, including major inquiries and institutional failings. That background informs her scrutiny of regulators, companies and governments.

Sandra Laville is a senior environment reporter for the Guardian who treats rivers, lakes and sewage systems as public infrastructure. She covers water companies, sewage pollution, river campaigns, regulation and corporate decisions that shape ecological damage and daily life. Her reporting also examines intensive farming, food security, environmental breaches, climate risks, flood-prone housing, tree planting, school shade, plastic waste, energy use and data centres. Notable work includes investigations into sewage dumping in protected sites, court challenges over water company bailouts, poultry and pig farm violations, and plastic waste on beaches. She connects legal rulings, official data and expert research with the experiences of affected communities. She uses freedom of information disclosures, court filings and regulatory statements to scrutinise companies, regulators and political choices, while giving space to campaigners, scientists and rural communities.

Sascha Pare reports on how climate change reshapes water, ice and life on Earth. She is a staff writer at Live Science covering environment, Earth systems and related science news. Her beat includes food systems, Arctic change, freshwater, aquifers, salt lakes, methane, pollution and industrial impacts. She also covers volcanoes, evolution, paleontology, superbugs and genetics research. Pare translates studies into clear consequences, explaining models, satellite data, proxy records and physical mechanisms while showing what they mean for food prices, rivers, farms, polar systems and communities. Her reporting has examined Atlantic currents, Arctic sea-ice interventions, hidden groundwater, methane capture and industrial waste becoming rock. Her work has also appeared in The Guardian and Zoe.

Simon Jessop leads Reuters coverage of how finance and companies respond to climate change, nature loss and wider ESG pressures. His beat centres on sustainable finance, climate funding, development banks, investment flows and corporate behaviour. He tracks who pays for climate action, where money moves and whether it matches rising climate costs. He covers climate summits, debt and development-bank reform, sustainable funds, investor campaigns, audit scrutiny, corporate climate risk, biodiversity, supply chains and the financing of renewable energy and storage projects. His reporting links policy to balance sheets, fund flows, project pipelines and business decisions. Notable work includes coverage of development-bank climate lending, sustainable-fund closures, climate accounting scrutiny, EU carbon rules, nature-related financial risks, El Niño’s economic impact and a battery-storage deal involving NatPower and Tesla. He explains complex finance in accessible terms, using data and on-the-record voices from banks, officials, investors and companies.

Simon Jessop connects physical climate risk with financial and economic detail. He covers climate change, global finance and corporate behaviour for Reuters, leading a team on how financial systems and companies respond to climate change, nature loss and ESG issues, including diversity and inclusion. His reporting covers climate diplomacy and COP30 negotiations, climate finance, development banks, coal financing, carbon markets, sustainable funds, corporate action on nature loss, AI data centres, and the effects of heat, floods, fires and other climate shocks on economies and sectors. He examines how political decisions, multilateral negotiations and market structures shape financial flows, corporate strategies and economic impacts. His work follows governments, finance ministers, investors, companies, activists and affected communities, showing how decisions across the system connect.