Noah Haggerty is an environment, health and science reporter at the Los Angeles Times. With a background in physics, he has conducted research on spacecraft propulsion, fusion energy and plasma — the stuff that makes up lightning and the sun. He joined The Times in 2024 as an AAAS Mass Media Fellow.
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Fire crews started making progress on containment Sunday after the Inn fire grew to more than 500 acres Thursday night, prompting evacuations.
Two suspects are in custody following a shooting that left two dead and one in the hospital Saturday night. A third suspect is still at large.
A new study shows that only a quarter of fire cleanup workers in Altadena wore gloves, a fifth wore a protective mask, and a mere tenth donned full Tyvek suits, as required by California’s fire cleanup regulations.
Residents in the Eaton burn area and downwind can now send in soil samples from their yard to test for lead, a potent neurotoxin that’s especially dangerous for kids.
Eleven of the 23 schools in the Pasadena Unified School District have soil contaminated with dangerous levels of lead and arsenic, according to data released this week.
A group of environmental researchers is calling on the Newsom administration to step in and pay for soil testing at thousands of homes destroyed in the Eaton and Palisades wildfires.
The team of scientists found only one water sample with benzene, suggesting that the water is generally safe to drink across Altadena and the Pacific Palisades.
The last of the ‘do not drink’ notices in areas hit by the Eaton and Palisades fires were lifted Friday by state water officials.
Indigenous tribes without federal recognition fiercely opposed a bill that would treat tribes with and without federal recognition differently during land development disputes, prompting the author to pull it.