A scientist who became a journalist.
Kalain Hosein is a weather, climate, and environment journalist and editor. He brings an earth-science foundation to a beat that shapes daily life, from the newsroom to the UN climate negotiations.
From Trinidad and Tobago to the climate beat.
Kalain Hosein is a weather, climate, and environment journalist from Trinidad and Tobago, now based in New York City. In 2014, he founded the Trinidad and Tobago Weather Center, and in the decade since, he has become one of the region’s most recognizable voices for forecasting and explaining Caribbean weather to the public.
His path into journalism ran through the earth sciences: a BSc in Geophysics & Seismology from Texas A&M and an MA in Climate and Society from Columbia, with a specialization in disaster risk management. That grounding lets his reporting move from the models and the data to the physical systems behind them, and then into language a viewer or reader can actually use.
In practice, the newsroom’s climate editor.
For five years at Guardian Media, Kalain was, in practice, the climate and weather editor of a national newsroom. Every story with a climate, weather, or environmental dimension, across television, print, and digital, ran through him for story angle, scientific accuracy, fact-checking, and graphics. During severe-weather crises, he directed the editorial response, assigned coverage, determined where field teams should be deployed, and set multi-day strategy across platforms. He later served as the company’s climate change consultant, guiding its broadcast editorial team and newsgathering editors on coverage strategy.
He also builds and runs newsrooms of his own. As founder and editor-in-chief of the Trinidad and Tobago Weather Center, he makes real-time editorial calls during severe weather and leads a small team of contributors on a digital-first platform that reaches hundreds of thousands of people across nine platforms, with monthly reach in the millions.
More than 1,250 nights on primetime.
Between 2019 and 2024, Kalain delivered over 1,250 nights of primetime forecasts on CNC3 with Guardian Media, a nightly conversation with Trinidad and Tobago about the sky above it. He wrote and produced the daily World Weather Wrap, tracking severe weather, wildfires, and tropical cyclones around the world, and built a body of award-winning long-form work: documentaries on the human toll of a warming world, the mechanics of the region’s worsening floods, and the saltwater crisis reshaping communities in southern Trinidad. His front-page journalism for the Trinidad & Tobago Guardian and his top stories for CNC3 have chronicled the hurricanes, floods, and public-health emergencies of recent years, and his features have appeared across regional and international outlets.
From the negotiating table to disaster resilience.
Kalain has covered the UN climate negotiations on the ground at COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh and COP28 in Dubai, reporting on what global decisions mean for the small island developing states on the front lines of the crisis and moderating high-level panels with heads of state, ministers, and negotiators. That work increasingly points toward disaster risk management. His MA from Columbia carries a specialization in the field, and at the university’s National Center for Disaster Preparedness he was a lead contributor to the Disaster Genome Project and wrote case studies on governance failures, early-warning-system gaps, and post-disaster recovery.
Awards & honors.
Kalain’s reporting has been recognized across the Caribbean and internationally:
