Daily Trojan18h
‘Temperature Check’ is a portrait of Los Angeles
Los Angeles is a city of contradictions — glamorous yet gritty, paradise yet perilous, sun-drenched yet shrouded in wildfire smoke. Jessica Taylor Bellamy captures this precarious balance in her ...
What We Lost: A Portrait of LA in 77 Memories
Through the voices of 77 Angelenos, this story pays tribute to a selection of the thousands of structures that were lost or ...
Los Angeles Times20d
Opinion: How governable is Los Angeles?
Los Angeles is being investigated, pilloried and derided over the horrific loss of life and property in the 2025 fires. Certainly, Mayor Karen Bass, the City Council and the county Board of ...
wallpaper21d
Reflections from Los Angeles: a local writer's personal account of the LA fires
For me, the 2025 Los Angeles fires state of emergency began on January 10 at 3.48 am with four loud squarks on my iPhone and an urgent message: 'be ready to evacuate.' The Palisades fire was three ...
The Independent22d
Why are lone homes left standing after the Los Angeles fires? It’s not entirely luck
The scattershot nature of the carnage in the Los Angeles wildfires is confounding homeowners and experts alike. So does luck play a part or are there ways homes can be made less vulnerable to fire?
The Atlantic22d
Los Angeles’s Ash Problem
When I saw gardeners arriving armed with leaf blowers, my heart sank. (Los Angeles County has temporarily banned their use because they throw up so much dust.) But no one knew exactly the right ...
Vox22d
The unusually strong force behind the apocalyptic fires in Los Angeles
Sustained powerful winds reaching nearly 100 miles per hour are driving fast-moving wildfires near Los Angeles, spewing smoke, destroying homes, closing roads, and forcing thousands of people to ...
CNN23d
‘Everybody can do something’: Angelenos come together to help after fires
Los Angeles area residents, from all walks of life, have come together to help the thousands who lost their homes in the fires or were forced to evacuate, leaving everything behind. For over a ...
Time24d
How the Los Angeles Fires Compare to Historic Wildfires
Thousands of personnel—firefighters, first responders, and the National Guard—have turned their attention towards stifling the catastrophic Los Angeles wildfires, some of the worst California ...
Bloomberg L.P.24d
The LA Wildfires Should Change the Way We Live
It may be weeks, and likely months, before we have the full measure of the catastrophe wrought by the Los Angeles fires. It’s possible the scale, at least in terms of property damage ...
The New York Times25d
How Los Angeles Dreams Became Kindling
Los Angeles grew as developers pushed further into feral spaces to plant suburbia.Credit... Supported by By Mark Arax Photographs by Ricardo Nagaoka Mr. Arax has been writing about California’s ...
Scientific American25d
Here’s How Climate Change Fueled the Los Angeles Wildfires
As Greta Cazzaniga, a climate scientist at the ClimaMeter and the Pierre-Simon Laplace Institute in France, said in a recent press statement, “the Los Angeles wildfires have shown how multiple ...