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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The Mission Creek strand, which runs from Indio through the San Bernardino Mountains, is actually Southern California's fastest slipping section of the San Andreas Fault. -
It doesn't look great for local landscapes or our big stores of water, which are already stressed by previous dry years.
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A new bill could double the size of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area and protect a whole lot more land in the San Gabriels.
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They're beautiful, grow delicious fruit and are so moist they might slow down wildfires. Could large scale banana plantings be part of the solution to our fire woes?
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They're beautiful, grow delicious fruit, and are so moist that they could potentially work to protect against fires. Could large scale banana plantings be the solution to some of our fire woes?
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Not saying you’re going to need it, but it’s always a good idea to have a go bag if you live in a mountainous area that recently burned.
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It's the middle of winter, but there's a fire burning on Mt. Baldy and the National Weather Service has issued a red flag warning. It's the new normal.
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The last day actually brought a decent amount of rain (and snow) to some spots in Southern California.
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While California's most majestic forests may seem far from the the toxic smog in cities, it turns out that all the junk we pump into the air can travel a long way and make our trees sick.
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Smog from our cities has long been making the forests that we love to escape to sick, and helps set the stage for some terrible fires.
Stories by Jacob Margolis
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