Hilary Beaumont is an investigative journalist covering the climate crisis and intersecting issues. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, WIRED, Al Jazeera, Rolling Stone, VICE News, The New Republic, Grist, High Country News and more.

Her work includes reporting for The Guardian on the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires and recovery, a Guardian investigation revealing how the fossil fuel industry helped spread anti-protest laws across the U.S., and a Rolling Stone investigation focusing on the first environmental activist killed by police in America.

She is a Pulitzer Center grantee exploring how climate change is destroying the ice roads that supply Indigenous communities in Canada. And she completed the 2025 Energy Journalism Fellowship at Columbia University.

In 2021, she won a SEAL Environmental Journalism Award, which recognizes journalists who produce impactful work and bring a fresh perspective to the climate beat.

She was previously a staff reporter at VICE News, where she hosted documentaries and published award-winning investigations. She uncovered sexual harassment in Canada’s Parliament, reported from the Standing Rock protests, and investigated Canada’s inaction on the water crisis in Indigenous communities.

Bluesky: @hilarybeaumont.bsky.social

Press

• KALW — Hurricane Helene’s Deadly Warning & the LA fires recovery effort

• The Narwhal — Humanizing the workforce: How we went behind the scenes to tell the story of the migrants growing Canada’s produce

• The Big Story Podcast — Enbridge has paid American police millions to protect their pipeline

• APTN National News — Why one energy company is picking up the tab for policing

• The Big Story Podcast — The Line 5 pipeline: A disaster waiting to happen or necessary to prevent an energy crisis?

• The Big Story Podcast — “Them plants are killing us”: Toxic pollution in the rust belt

• Canadaland — Should we report climate change as an emergency?

• RTDNA — How news organizations should respond to online harassment of journalists

• CBC — Halifax police react to The Coast’s cyberstalking story

Awards

• Pulitzer Center Grantee (2025)

• Best Longform/Magazine Story, Indigenous Journalists Association (2025)

• Tiny Foundation Fellowship for Investigative Journalism (2022)

• SEAL Environmental Journalism Award (2021)

• Labour Reporting Award, Canadian Association of Journalists (2021)

• Allan Slaight Prize for Journalism long-list (2020)

• Canada’s Hillman Prize honourable mention (2018)

• Excellence in Journalism Award, Canadian Journalism Foundation (2015)

• Community Media Award, Canadian Association of Journalists (2015)