Jason Goldman
Dr. Jason G. Goldman is a freelance science writer covering animal behavior, wildlife biology, conservation, and ecology. He has written for Scientific American, Los Angeles Magazine, The Washington Post, The Guardian, the BBC, Conservation Magazine, and elsewhere. He hosts "The Wild Life" podcast and is co-editor of Science Blogging: The Essential Guide (Yale University Press). He's obsessed with mountain lions and has been called a raccoon avenger.
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Confronting the death of P-41 and the sometimes-Pyrrhic victories of P-22 underscore just how difficult it is for wild animals – especially large carnivores – to find their way in the big city.
When it comes to seafood, figuring out what’s ethical or sustainable can prove more difficult than you’d think.
We know dolphins are clever critters but most of us are unfamiliar with the most interesting facets of their biology and behavior.
The good news: there are no rattlesnakes in the Baldwin Hills. The bad news: there are no rattlesnakes in the Baldwin Hills.
Nature comes back to the Valley... with a little help.
20th Century engineers turned L.A. County beaches into expanses of barren sand. Now, ecologists are working to change that.
The study, already in progress in Los Angeles, is expanding to the community near Thousand Oaks.
Some in the San Gabriel Valley community want to abandon a non-lethal control policy.
Conservationists say the species is declining. But are they looking in the right places at the right times?
When fire can't thin forests, we get more trees than we'd have otherwise — and now there isn't enough water to keep them all alive.
Nearly half the hundreds of fish samples taken from 26 Los Angeles sushi restaurants over four years were wrongly labeled.
With mass extinction in progress, we can't afford to wait for data. Citizen scientists help gather that data a lot faster.