The climate crisis is not a distant threat; it’s happening right now and affecting what matters most to us. Hurricanes ...

The fires that have engulfed Los Angeles cap the hottest decade in history. Each year in the last ten was record-warm, but 2024 was the warmest ever recorded. Last year, Earth was 1.6°C hotter than ...

Extreme heat dries out vegetation and the soil. Wildfires ignite more easily, spread faster and burn with greater intensity ...

Since Jan. 7, devastating fires in and around Los Angeles have burned more than 40,000 acres of land, an area slightly larger than Washington, D.C. They have razed or damaged more than 12,300 homes ...

If you grew up in Southern California, you don’t need a weather person to know which way the Santa Ana winds blow. These dry ...

Epic events like the Southern California wildfires do not have a singular cause. While we don’t yet know the official causes ...

Today’s climate driven disasters are the result of more than a century of extracting and burning fossil fuels,' says Altadena-based climate lawyer Maya Golden-Krasner, deputy director of the Center fo ...

These extreme 'whiplash' cycles can worsen wildfires, as we saw in the LA fires, which ended with a high human cost ...

In early July 2021, the Oregon Bootleg wildfire was considered seasonally abnormal, taking place slightly earlier than a ...

Hydroclimate whiplash -- the rapid shift between wet and dry conditions -- likely contributed to the severity of the ...

As California oscillates between drought and deluge, wildfires rage due to "hydroclimate whiplash" driven by global warming.