Somini Sengupta, a Times climate reporter, on her relationship with the city, its mythology, and a reckoning with disaster.

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A year-old clip of a plane crashing near the Chilean city of Talca has resurfaced online in connection to firefighting ...

Days of extreme and unusual heat preceded Chile’s wildfires in February of 2024. Temperatures soared to the upper 30s – more ...

A post on X purports to show GoPro footage of firefighters fighting wildfires currently ravaging Los Angeles. Verdict: False ...

Los Angeles is dominated by chaparral, a type of scrub that occurs in Mediterranean climates where there is dense, rocky soil ...

Al Jazeera posted a similar clip showing the crash in January 2024, predating the California wildfires by a year.

The article noted that the video was from Chile and not Los Angeles, as claimed. We, then, ran relevant keyword searches and ...

American tennis player Taylor Fritz is donating the prize money he earned for his first-round victory at the Australian Open ...

An illegal drone collided with a plane fighting Los Angeles fires on January 9, but there have been no reports of a crash ...

The footage in the post is not associated with the Los Angeles wildfires that began in January 2025. It was posted online before the fires started. Multiple Los Angeles area wildfires broke out in ...

POV video shared on social media showed a firefighter extinguishing flames in a house in Chile, not California, contrary to ...