Burning Teslas in LA add to toxic mix hindering California wildfire cleanup
Lithium batteries from Tesla Inc., along with those from other carmakers, have added to the mix of toxic materials requiring ...
Can headlights be too bright?
You might wonder if there’s a limit on how bright headlights can be, or even how headlights that bright are legal in the first place. The answer is that those headlights may not be legal ...
California wildfires: What we know about L.A.-area fires, what caused them, who is affected and more
Fueled by powerful winds and dry conditions, a series of ferocious wildfires erupted last week and roared across the Los Angeles area.
Trump expected to survey Los Angeles-area wildfire damage next week
President-elect Donald Trump, in perhaps his first official trip after being inaugurated Monday, will likely visit the Los ...
Burning Teslas in LA add toxic barriers to wildfire cleanup
The Palisades fire wreaked significant havoc on the nearby city of Malibu. In an interview, Mayor Doug Stewart said that the ...
To Be From L.A. Is to Know Its Twin Temptations, Beauty and Danger
Somini Sengupta, a Times climate reporter, on her relationship with the city, its mythology, and a reckoning with disaster.
Do Los Angeles drivers lose the most time to traffic in the US?
The latest report shows that, in 2024, drivers “lost” an average of 43 hours to traffic. That’s up an hour from 2023 but down eight hours over 2022 when the average time “lost” was 51 hours. In 2021, ...
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory unscathed by Eaton fire, but not its workforce
On Jan. 11, an airborne imaging spectrometer managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory flew over Los Angeles County to ...