Rachel Becker is an environment reporter at CalMatters, where she covers California’s complex water challenges and water policy issues. She is a former science reporter for The Verge. Her bylines have appeared in NOVA Next, National Geographic News, Smithsonian, Slate, Nature, Nature Medicine, bioGraphic, and Hakai Magazine.

Thesis: You Smell : The Mysterious Science of Scent

Recent Publications Include:

• The Klamath River Salmon Die-off Was Tragic. Was it Predictable?
• Will California Avalanches Worsen with Climate Change?
• State Approves Rules that Turn Sewage into Drinking Water
• Western States’ Planned Water Cuts are Enough to Avert a Colorado River Crisis, For Now
• A Pivot on Desalination Plants: California Approves Project in Orange County