Julie Cart

Julie Cart joined CalMatters as a projects and environment reporter in 2016 after a long career at the Los Angeles Times, where she held many positions: sportswriter, national correspondent and environment reporter. In 2009 she and colleague Bettina Boxall won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for their series on wildfires in the West.

A USDA field manager walks along the parched ground in a pomegranate orchard at Wolfskill Experimental Farm outside of Davis on Aug. 25, 2021.
Torture orchard: Can science transform California crops to cope with drought?
Environment
by Julie Cart
09.13.2021
Environment
Water station in Antelope Valley. July 2021.
Thieves are stealing California’s scarce water. Where’s it going? Illegal marijuana farms.
Business
by Julie Cart
07.22.2021
Business
A cow stands in the dry grass at Megan Brown’s Oroville ranch on April 22, 2021. Brown had to sell off much of her herd earlier this year when she realized there wouldn’t be enough grass to feed them. Photo by Anne Wernikoff, CalMatters
Running out of water and time: How unprepared is California for 2021’s drought?
Environment
by Julie Cart + Rachel Becker
05.24.2021
Environment
European green crabs trapped and removed from Seadrift Lagoon in Stinson Beach, Calif. by marine biologists are kept in a bin before they're measured and logged on Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017. April 2021
Unwelcome and tough to evict: California’s costly, uphill battle against invasive species
Environment
by Julie Cart
04.13.2021
Environment