In the last six months, millions of column inches have been dedicated to the topic of climate change, but we still hear very little from the people dealing with it on the frontline, small-scale rural ...
Matt McGrath is environment correspondent for BBC News. He has covered climate change and environment for the BBC since 2006 and has reported on some of the major events in that period, from the disappointment of Copenhagen in 2009 to the success of Paris in 2015 to the drama in Glasgow in 2021. He works across all media, principally for BBC News online but also for radio and TV. Originally from Tipperary in Ireland, Matt was a Knight Journalism Fellow at MIT in 2010/11. He was also the winner of the first BBVA Biophilia Award for Environmental Communication in 2019.
For decades climate change was a story about what’s to come. Not anymore. Today, we see climate change manifesting across the world - in heat-fueled hurricanes and megafires, in rising seas swamping...