Molly Bentley reports on leading science research on the West Coast for BBC World Service, domestic radio and Online News, and occasionally works from the BBC offices in London. She has also contributed to National Public Radio's "Living on Earth" and to KQED in San Francisco.

Recent stories include the record loss of ice in Greenland and the Arctic, the new tests to monitor viruses in the Pacific Ocean, an underground earthquake observatory in the San Andreas Fault and also longer feature programs on the Wright Brothers, an investigative piece into multinational water utility privatization in California, and the rise of obesity in Asia from an international conference in Beijing. She also produces a new weekly radio program on astrobiology and skepticism for the SETI Institute. Prior to moving to California, she worked at BBC Science Radio in London and hosted a daily radio program for Prague's English-language Station "Metropolis." She began her radio work at Wisconsin Public Radio producing a three-hour national weekly radio magazine, "To the Best of Our Knowledge," which devoted one hour to science.

She earned her B.A. in English and Art History at Grinnell College in Iowa.