Éric-Pierre Champagne

A journalist with La Presse since September 2001, Éric-Pierre Champagne primarily covers environment and science. He is particularly interested in climate change, the decline in biodiversity and land-use planning. He takes great pride in explaining complex issues in a way that readers can understand.

Sarah Everts

Sarah Everts is a science journalist and an associate professor of journalism at Carleton University. Her writing has appeared in Scientific American, Smithsonian, The Walrus, Economist, and others. She is author of the award-winning book “The Joy of Sweat: The Strange Science of Perspiration.” She has an M.Sc. (Chemistry) from the University of British Columbia.

Melissa Gismondi

Melissa Gismondi is an award-winning writer and audio producer, with a background in academia. For years, she worked with CBC Radio and remains a regular contributor to the long-running program IDEAS. Melissa’s writing has appeared in major media outlets including The Guardian, The New York Times, The Walrus and more.

Laura Lynch

Laura Lynch has been a journalist for more than three decades.  She is the co-creator and founding host of the CBC podcast “What on Earth”, a show dedicated to scrutinizing climate solutions. She has also been interim host of “The Current” and guest host of “As it Happens” and many other CBC programs. Laura has been a foreign correspondent based in Washington and London, a parliamentary reporter in Ottawa, and a national reporter in Toronto and Vancouver.  

Danielle Paradis

Danielle Paradis is an award-winning climate reporter. She writes regularly for DeSmog and won the 2025 Gold Medal in specialized reporting for her podcast on Climate Change in the High Arctic. She often focuses on narratives of belonging in her work. Danielle is also an educator, and media professional who focuses on Indigenous stories and bridging traditional knowledge with contemporary life. As a proud member of the Alberta Metis Nation, she brings a unique perspective with her multifaceted career in journalism, academia, and community leadership.

Kyle Pope

Kyle co-founded Covering Climate Now while also serving as editor and publisher of the Columbia Journalism Review. Before CJR, he was editor-in-chief of the New York Observer, deputy editor of Conde Nast’s Portfolio magazine, and a longtime editor and reporter for The Wall Street Journal. He has served as a judge for the Pulitzer Prizes and the National Magazine Awards, and has testified before the US Congress about threats to the press.

Trina Roache

Trina Roache is a proud member of the Glooscap Mi’kmaw community, an award-winning video journalist and assistant professor in the School of Journalism, Writing & Publishing, in Kjipuktuk (also called Halifax). A storyteller at heart, Trina brings over two decades of reporting experience to her role as an educator. She’s reported for multiple platforms, including longform text, audio and video for CBC, APTN National News, APTN Investigates, Canada’s National Observer, the CanadaLandback podcast and more.

Trina weaves a Mi’kmaw perspective into both her journalism and the classroom. Her areas of expertise include Indigenous reporting, visual storytelling and investigative journalism.

Inayat Singh

Inayat Singh is a Toronto-based national climate reporter at CBC News, Canada’s public broadcaster. His stories appear on CBC’s The National, CBC Radio One and online. Inayat covers Canadian energy policy, politics, climate solutions and natural conservation.

Inayat was previously a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a data journalist at CBC’s national investigative unit.

Jenn Thornhill Verma

Jenn Thornhill Verma is an award-winning journalist specializing in the ocean, fisheries, environment and climate change. As Canada’s first, and returning, Pulitzer Center Ocean Reporting Network Fellow at The Globe and Mail, her reporting combines best-available evidence with the perspectives of those wearing the boots in the boats, in the harbours, waterways and iceways where the story happens. Her coverage centres on the nexus of conservation and commercial interests, from species-at-risk protections to climate adaptation coast to coast to coast. A Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and The Explorers Club, she also serves as president of the University of King’s College Alumni Association.

Jesse Winter

Jesse Winter is an award-winning photographer and writer currently based in Vancouver. He has reported from north of the Arctic Circle to the mangrove forests of Nigeria’s Niger Delta. His recent work focuses primarily on social justice, the environment and government accountability stories. Prior to joining The Globe and Mail, his work appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times, The Toronto Star, Maclean’s and elsewhere.

In a past life, Jesse represented Canada on the international stage as a competitive Nordic ski racer, competing at the 2008 Under 23 World Championships.

As a journalist, Jesse brings the same commitment and drive to telling stories. He is most at home on the road armed with his camera, note pad and a few gallons of coffee.”

Trevor Wright

Trevor Wright has worked as a journalist for over seven years in northern Canada, writing for the Opasquia Times in The Pas, Manitoba as well as Nunavut News and APTN National News in Iqaluit, Nunavut. Largely covering local and Indigenous issues. Trevor currently works for the Government of Nunavut.