When you have 60 mph winds or greater, there is no fire chief, water supply or budget that is going to put out fires like ...

Scientists say the week’s extreme weather is one of the hallmarks of climate change. It was a week of fire and ice.

Specialist teams have begun to look for more people killed, as officials insist scale of disaster not down to "lack of ...

Days before one of the largest wildfires the area has ever seen broke out in southern California, there were warnings — the region was a tinderbox.

The unthinkable happens and we need new ways to mitigate risk. We also need 'social capital' — strong community bonds that ...

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

The year isn’t even a month old and already the United States is facing its first billion-dollar disaster. We look to the devastating wildfires occurring in southern California.

For at least two decades now, the name of the game when it comes to our new climate reality hasn’t just been mitigation; ...

Researchers see a growing health danger from the vast plumes of pollution spawned by wildfires like the ones devastating Los ...

In Los Angeles’s chaparral-covered ecosystem, wildfires in the mountains are an annual ritual. But when those fires leaped ...

The Palisades, Eaton, Hurst, Lidia and Kenneth fires are burning in Southern California, destroying more than 12,000 ...