Julie Cart is a projects reporter on CalMatters’ environment team who focuses on wildfires and natural resources. Her projects have included an examination of the state’s push to build massive offshore wind farms, a deep dive into the crisis of PTSD and suicide among California firefighters as wildfires escalate, and the vulnerability of the state’s coastlines to rising sea levels.
Julie’s work for CalMatters has received numerous national and regional journalism awards, including from Best of the West and the Society of Environmental Journalists. In addition, Julie and colleague Bettina Boxall won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for their 2009 Los Angeles Times series on wildfires in the West. In 2023 she won the international Covering Climate Now award, which honored her four-part series in CalMatters documenting the mental health crisis among the crews that fight California’s wildfires. That project was also recognized with an Emmy Award for a collaboration with CBS News.
Julie came to CalMatters after a long career at the Los Angeles Times, where she held many positions: sportswriter, national correspondent and environment reporter. She has reported from numerous countries, including South Africa, Argentina, Cuba and throughout Europe. In 2017 she reported on Gov. Jerry Brown’s trip to the United Nations Climate Change conference in Bonn, Germany.
Big Basin, nearly wiped out by fire, remains closed as the state struggles to protect nearly 300 parks from climate change. Solutions are costly: thinning forests, adding sand to beaches, moving parking lots and buildings.
On the edge of the Salton Sea, state officials and investors are seeking to turn brine into ‘white gold’ that can power electric cars. But will this help solve the Imperial Valley’s troubles — or add to them?
En el borde del Mar de Salton, los funcionarios estatales y los inversores buscan convertir la salmuera en 'oro blanco' que pueda alimentar automóviles eléctricos. Pero, ¿ayudará esto a resolver los problemas del Valle Imperial o los agravará?
Erasing dozens of Trump’s climate rollbacks is Biden’s priority, and he issued directives on his first day in office. California’s air quality, wildlife, water, forests, farms — and even its light bulbs and washing machines — could be affected by new executive orders, policies and rules. But how likely are they, and when?
In an attempt to prevent wildfires, the utility is removing vegetation from around power lines. But it’s leaving downed trees on people’s property that are “little fire bombs waiting to ignite,” one expert says.
En un intento por prevenir incendios forestales, la empresa de servicios públicos está eliminando la vegetación alrededor de las líneas eléctricas. Pero está dejando árboles caídos en la propiedad de las personas que son "pequeñas bombas incendiarias esperando para encenderse", dice un experto.
For low-income Americans, the number of homes at risk of flooding could triple by 2050, researchers say. Three Bay Area cities are among the top at-risk communities.
Tucked into an otherwise quiet bend south of Pismo Beach, Oceano Dunes may be the most dangerous state park in California. Towns near the park, which draws more than a million off-roaders a year, are besieged with air pollution, crime and accidents — even a mass shooting last year.
Enjoying nature while preserving it is an age-old conflict in California, but nowhere is it more fraught than at Oceano Dunes. Can Mad Max-like racing and endangered species coexist?
Julie Cart is a projects reporter on CalMatters’ environment team who focuses on wildfires and natural resources.
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Julie Cart is a projects reporter on CalMatters’ environment team who focuses on wildfires and natural resources. Julie’s work for CalMatters has received numerous national and regional journalism awards, including from Best of the West and the Society of Environmental Journalists. In addition, Julie and colleague Bettina Boxall won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for their 2009 Los Angeles Times series on wildfires in the West. In 2023 she won the international Covering Climate Now award, which honored her four-part series in CalMatters documenting the mental health crisis among the crews that fight California's wildfires. Julie came to CalMatters after a long career at the Los Angeles Times, where she held many positions: sportswriter, national correspondent and environment reporter. She has reported from numerous countries, including South Africa, Argentina, Cuba and throughout Europe.