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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If you live near a steep, mountainous area that’s burned some time in the past few years, you need to prepare for debris flows when it rains. -
It could happen at any time.
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Starting Wednesday, a series of three atmospheric rivers is set to make landfall over Northern California.
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This might mean more bad news for California’s drought.
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These are the types of winds that make fires quite hard to stop.
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The damage could take 10 or more years to fully restore.
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How has wildlife been impacted? What caused the spill?
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The brief respite from hellish weather was lovely, wasn’t it?
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It only took one hour for 150 lightning strikes to hit the ground Thursday night in the San Gabriel Mountains.
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As temperatures rise, California's once-groundbreaking heat-safety rules haven't kept up.
Stories by Jacob Margolis
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