Many factors, such as strong Santa Ana winds and urban planning decisions, played into the recent destructive wildfires in ...

But wildfire experts say cutting down Southern California's chaparral won't make the region safer from wildfires. In fact, ...

New research shows climate change increased the likelihood of the devastating fires in Los Angeles County this month. Climate ...

Los Angeles is burning ... who told her the landscape was so dry — thanks, climate change — and the winds were so bad that better brush clearance probably wouldn’t have helped much, if ...

Rains starting in October normally dampen the Southern California landscape, reducing wildfire risk ... researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, found that climate change could be ...

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 ...

independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. It’s supposed to be the rainy season in Southern California, but the last time Los Angeles ...

In particular, the hotter temperatures and a drier atmosphere can be linked to heat-trapping gases that largely come from burning fossil fuels, according to two different analyses from the University ...

Still, for other extreme conditions that led to Los Angeles' fires, like the strong Santa Ana winds and lack of rain, discerning the role of climate change is scientifically trickier. While there ...