Nina Lakhani

Nina Lakhani has reported from more than a dozen countries including six years investigating health scandals, deaths in custody and honor based violence for The Independent newspapers in London and seven years freelancing in Mexico and Central America covering state sponsored repression, consequences of the war on drugs, gender based violence and the battle for natural resources. Most recently she spent six years as senior climate and environmental justice reporter for the Guardian based in New York investigating the intersection between structural racism and poverty with extreme weather events, the climate impact of war, and the criminalization of defenders, as well unequal access to water, food and clean air across the US. She is the author of Who Killed Berta Cáceres? Dams, Death Squads, and an Indigenous Defender’s Battle for the Planet, and a contributor to the 2025 anthology Gaza: the Story of a Genocide (chapter: Ecocide in Gaza). She is currently the global climate justice reporter for Drilled Media, based in Mexico City. Before journalism she was a mental health nurse.