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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
Can California save recycling?
Seabirds eating plastic. Recyclers struggling. This is what California’s waste crisis looks like
Worried about wildfires, Californians ready to spend, vote to fight climate change
California’s emissions deal with automakers dodges Trump EPA plan to gut rules
California’s pollution enforcers would like to save tropical forests. But at what cost?
Why a California lawmaker wants to ban cigarette filters and disposable vapes
Why fighting for clean water with climate change money worries some California lawmakers
Trump administration says no new talks with California on car rules
No longer the loneliest? Why Oregon’s all-in climate push matters to California
Commutes, jobs at stake in California’s clean air battle with Trump
Why California’s air board won’t ban gas-powered cars yet
The Latest From CalMatters
Newsom, Democrats lose effort to force Trump to release taxes—and it wasn’t close
“We need the food that we lost.” Low-income families still reeling from blackouts
California rejects federal water proposal, lays out its vision for protecting endangered species and meeting state water needs
Why California’s top court just struck down the state’s Trump tax return law
Money flows to Sacramento as Newsom administration again slaps at GM and Toyota
