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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
Chickens in a pen in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 2020

Livestock heat deaths in transit doubled in UK record-hot summer of 2025

UK policy | 25.06.26
Engineer installing a heat pump, UK.

CCC: Faster electrification of UK will ‘put money back into people’s pockets’

UK policy | 24.06.26
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Cropped 17 June 2026: Coral reef ‘hope’ | Ocean talks | Plant flowering times ‘shift’

Cropped | 17.06.26
A flag of the United States is seen in front of a burnt house during the Palisades wildfire in January 2025.

How wildfires and storms drove insurance losses in 2025 – in three charts

Policy | 31.03.26
Sheep grazing near wind turbines in a field in Kent, England in 2025.

Q&A: What England’s new ‘land-use framework’ means for climate, nature and food

UK policy | 20.03.26
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Cropped 11 March 2026: Iran water worries | Seabed-mining treaty progress | Women farmers and climate change

Cropped | 11.03.26
Interactive: Mapped: How extreme weather is destroying crops around the world

Mapped: How extreme weather is destroying crops around the world

Food and farming | 11.03.26
Montage of newspapers by Tom Prater for Carbon Brief.

Q&A: What does the Iran war mean for the energy transition and climate action?

International policy | 10.03.26
Steel mill, Germany.

Q&A: What the EU’s new industry and ‘Made in Europe’ rules mean for climate action

EU policy | 05.03.26
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Cropped 11 February 2026: Aftershocks of US withdrawals | Biodiversity and business risks | Deep-sea mining tensions

Cropped | 11.02.26
IPBES chair Dr David Obura. Credit: Carbon Brief

IPBES chair Dr David Obura: Trump’s US exit from global nature panel ‘harms everybody’

Interviews | 11.02.26
Bangkok skyline from Lumphini Park, Thailand.

IPBES: Four key takeaways on how nature loss threatens the global economy

Nature | 09.02.26

DeBriefed 6 February 2026: US secret climate panel ‘unlawful’ | China’s clean energy boon | Can humans reverse nature loss?

DeBriefed | 06.02.26
President Donald Trump walks off the stage after speaking at a campaign event on 18 June 2024.

Q&A: What Trump’s US exit from UNFCCC and IPCC could mean for climate action

International policy | 09.01.26
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Cropped 17 December 2025: ‘Deadly’ Asia floods; Boosting London’s water birds; UN headwinds

Cropped | 17.12.25
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Rotten apples on a compost heap on an allotment site

Food waste makes up ‘half’ of global food system emissions

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13.03.23

In-depth Q&A: What food waste means for climate change

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Analysis: How do the EU farmer protests relate to climate change? 

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Lough Neagh: How climate change intensified toxic algae on the UK’s largest lake

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