Al Roker talks to climate scientist Alexander Gershunov about the conditions that made the L.A. wildfires so devastating.

A quick scientific study finds that human-caused climate change increased the likelihood and intensity of the hot, dry and windy conditions that fanned the flames of the recent devastating Southern Ca ...

Human-driven climate change set the stage for the devastating Los Angeles wildfires by reducing rainfall, parching vegetation ...

In California’s recent Fourth Climate Change Assessment, the Scripps team produced an ... Scripps climate scientist Janin Guzman Morales’ research on Santa Ana winds – traditionally most noted in the ...

Powerful Santa Ana winds, with gusts reaching hurricane strength, swept down the mountains outside Los Angeles and spread ...

The Los Angeles (LA) wildfires began with with the Palisades fire, which erupted the morning of Jan. 7 in Pacific Palisades as a mere brush fire. Evacuation orders were issued for that fire and by ...

"Adjudicating aid based on some political formula or … living in a state with a governor out of favor with the prevailing ...

However, a new study in Nature finds that climate change is accelerating the destabilization of animal populations worldwide. Scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz; Rutgers ...

Last month, 150 feet of the Santa Cruz Wharf — an iconic ... and large storms are likely to become more frequent or more intense with human-induced climate change." These extreme weather events are ...

California’s Proposition 4 offers a historic opportunity to leverage $10 billion in state funding to enhance wildfire prevention, protect water resources, and support climate adaptation efforts. As ...

With 2025 being ushered in by the most devastating natural disaster in U.S. history, and the Trump administration retreating ...

A plan to widen the 605 and other freeways will increase, not help, congestion. That's bad for Angelenos and our environment.