Jacob Margolis
Science Reporter
(he/him)
Jacob Margolis is a science reporter and podcast host whose work currently focuses on climate change and disasters.
He created, wrote and hosted the LAist Studios podcasts, The Big One: Your Survival Guide and The Big Burn: How To Survive In The Age of Wildfires.
He was part of the team that won the 2021 Investigative Reporters and Editors Audio Journalism Award for the series "Hot Days: Heat’s Mounting Death Toll On Workers In The U.S."
Before disasters, his reporting took him all across our galaxy, as he dove deep on space exploration.
When he’s not reporting, he’s in the garden and spending time with his family in Los Angeles, where he grew up.
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It’s one of the reasons the fire department is relying more on mobile water stations for their helicopters. -
It’s no fun hanging ten in poop water.
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It’s making me ... squirrely.
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The state is stepping in to offer some financial protection for people who do prescribed and cultural burns.
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While you shouldn’t expect to see the lake anytime soon, a big quake is always imminent.
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To best protect wetlands, permitting and enforcement need to be sorted.
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Purple nutsedge has me spiraling. How to not make the same mistakes I made.
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Our winter weather could see the biggest impacts.
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Lots of it has to do with our transition from cool to warm weather.
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A new study says that Australia’s 2019-2020 bushfires were so massive that they could have helped kick off our recent run of La Niñas.
Stories by Jacob Margolis
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