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Food, land and nature journalist @orladwyer_

Orla Dwyer

Food, land and nature journalist SINCE November 2022

Orla Dwyer covers food, land and nature. Orla has a BA in journalism from Dublin City University. She previously reported and wrote a climate newsletter for Irish news website The Journal. She has also worked at Virgin Media Television, Dublin People and the Irish Farmers Journal.

LATEST BY Orla Dwyer
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Cropped 13 August 2025: Fossil-fuelled bird decline; ‘Deadly’ wildfires; Empty nature fund

Cropped | 13.08.25
Image credit: JasperImage. Graphic: Carbon Brief.

Analysis: Record UK wildfires have burned an area twice the size of Glasgow in 2025

Wildfires | 08.08.25
Plate-billed mountain toucan, Ecuador.

Revealed: ‘Cali Fund’ for nature still empty as emails show industry hesitation

International policy | 06.08.25
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Cropped 30 July 2025: ‘Unprecedented’ ocean heatwaves; ‘Uneven’ hunger progress; Brazil’s ‘devastation bill’

Cropped | 30.07.25
supermarket worker handles bags of reserve rice released from government stockpiles in Tokyo on 31 May 2025.

Mapped: 16 times extreme weather drove higher food prices since 2022

Food and farming | 21.07.25
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Cropped 16 July 2025: EU deforestation law pushback; Agri emissions; US lobster disease

Cropped | 16.07.25

DeBriefed 11 July 2025: Texas floods; Global warming ‘tripled’ Europe heat deaths; Ireland exits coal

DeBriefed | 11.07.25
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Cropped 2 July 2025: US public lands under attack; How India’s gig workers are suffering under climate change; Bonn to Belém

Cropped | 02.07.25
Wheat affected by drought conditions in Bremen, Germany in May 2025. Credit: dpa picture alliance / Alamy Stock Photo. Image ID: 3BB9R98.

Global wheat yields would be ‘10%’ higher without climate change

Food and farming | 21.05.25
Firefighters clearing debris from wildfires in Victoria, Australia in February 2020. Credit: Interior Department / Alamy Stock Photo. Image ID: 2B8M4MN.

Forests taking longer to recover from severe ‘megafires’ since 2010

Plants and forests | 02.05.25
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Glossary: Carbon Brief’s guide to 25 ‘climate-friendly’ farming methods

Nature | 14.04.25
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Cropped 26 March 2025: US birds in peril; UK ecologists ‘job fears’; Finance ‘fuelling’ deforestation

Cropped | 26.03.25

DeBriefed 28 February 2025: COP16 lands finance deal; More than half of nations skip key nature pledge; UK eyes cost-saving emissions plan

DeBriefed | 28.02.25
COP 16 President Susana Muhamad, Colombia, 27 February 2025. Credit: IISD/ENB | Mike Muzurakis.

COP16: Key outcomes agreed at the resumed UN biodiversity conference in Rome

COP16 | 28.02.25
Interactive: Mapped: How extreme weather is destroying crops around the world

Mapped: How extreme weather is destroying crops around the world

Food and farming | 14.02.25
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