Noah Haggerty

Science Journalist

I’m a science reporter based in California covering the experimental work and research targeting the greatest, high-stakes questions of our generation.

Can we stop our cities from burning to the ground? Will humans return to the moon? How do we transition to clean energy and build a sustainable relationship with the environment? It’s questions like these that demand smart, creative solutions and teach us to view the world in a new way.

I’ve spent the past two years at The Los Angeles Times, where I covered the 2025 Palisades fire from the field and have reported on the Pacifc Palisades' and Altadena's rebuilding efforts, wildfire prevention work and their lingering environmental contamination in the year since.

For this work, our team was a semifinalist for the Shorenstein Center’s Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting and won third place for the Society of Environmental Journalists’ Kevin Carmody Award for Outstanding Investigative Reporting.

Before entering the world of journalism, I conducted research on spacecraft propulsion, fusion energy and plasma — the stuff that makes up lightning and the sun. With a background in physics, I've made data-driven analysis and systems thinking pillars of my reporting.

I first joined The Times as a 2024 AAAS Mass Media Fellow. Previously, I served as editor-in-chief for Northeastern University’s student-run science magazine NU Sci Magazine and deputy editor for Northeastern’s Science Media Lab.