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Rachel Becker
Rachel Becker is a reporter with a background in scientific research. After studying the links between the brain and the immune system, Rachel left the lab bench with her master's degree to become a journalist via the MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing. For nearly three years, Rachel was a staff science reporter at The Verge, where she wrote stories and hosted videos covering a range of beats including climate change, nicotine, and nuclear technology. Her byline has also appeared in NOVA Next, National Geographic News, Smithsonian, Slate, Nature, Nature Medicine, bioGraphic, and Hakai Magazine, as well as the PBS Digital Studios video series Gross Science and the YouTube show MinuteEarth. Rachel is now an environment reporter for CALmatters, where she covers climate change and California's environmental policies.
The latest by Rachel Becker
48,600 coronavirus test results still pending in California
Coronavirus ‘can impact anybody and everybody’: L.A. County teen is first infected youngster to die in US
Ask an expert: How solid are California’s coronavirus projections?
How overwhelmed is California’s health care system about to be?
Where California stands with coronavirus testing right now
Legislature passes $1.1 billion in emergency coronavirus funding — then leaves the Capitol
California adds online triage for coronavirus to help with test shortages
Drought or dangerous flooding? Research to save California’s rain
California analysts urge lawmakers: reject Gov. Newsom’s $1 billion climate loan proposal
With one California recycling bill already dead, will this be the year the state tackles its waste crisis?
The Latest From CalMatters
Nearly 900 placed into hotels, motels — a fraction of California’s homeless
Hot spots: Pandemic pushes California to bridge a digital divide
500% increase in CA unemployment claims
Listen: California hospitals prep for coronavirus — and life afterward
As coronavirus impacts the hospitality business, chefs cook up a plan to help farmers and restaurants, and it also will help feed the hungry
