As Los Angeles burned for days on end, scientists made an announcement that 2024 was the hottest year on record. With ...

Somini Sengupta, a climate reporter who has lived across Los Angeles, reflects on the city, its mythology and its reckoning ...

John Vaillant, author of the best-selling book Fire Weather, says the hotter our cities become, the more we must worry about ...

We can mitigate the risk of catastrophic wildfires with prescribed burns. By reducing brush and other tinder, these small, ...

On top of the human tragedy they’re still inflicting, the Los Angeles wildfires are exposing a gap between what people thought their homes were worth and what they’ll actually get from insurance ...

And climate science points towards figures that suggest more such events are waiting. These events strip away precious ...

The fires that have ravaged the Los Angeles area in Southern California, USA, since early January, are a stark reminder of this escalating threat ...

Axios Visuals More homeowners facing risks from extreme weather like wildfires and hurricanes are being dropped by their insurance companies, new data shows. Why it matters: Getting a mortgage without ...

Joan Didion wrote that “the city burning is Los Angeles’s deepest image of itself.” Since then, insurance companies and ...

As a volunteer emergency medical technician and firefighter with over 30 years of experience, I was horrified to read in the ...

Reeling from destructive wildfires, California lawmakers in 2020 passed new requirements for clearing combustible materials ...

The nightmare wildfires in Los Angeles are a reminder of why news organizations matter. In reporting the breaking news hour ...