Climate scientist Ben Hamlington works on understanding the impacts of climate change. Losing his house in the Eaton Fire has ...

Extreme weather events — deadly heat waves, floods, fires and hurricanes — are the consequences of a warming planet, ...

Los Angeles is burning, but it isn't alone. In recent years, fires have blasted through cities in Colorado, the southern ...

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

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

Scientists are issuing a stark warning about the changing climate after the planet reached a key warming benchmark in 2024.

After millennia as a carbon deep-freezer for the planet, regional hotspots and increasingly frequent wildfires in the ...

Fierce winds and months of drought set the conditions for the catastrophic wildfires in Los Angeles, but the growth of housing in fire-prone areas also played a major role. Earth’s warming could ...

California has become a vivid example of a global phenomenon known as “hydroclimate whiplash,” which involves sudden and ...

Earth recorded its hottest year ever in 2024, with such a big jump that the planet temporarily passed a major climate ...

There was no coal baron who lighted the matches. No oil driller who dried out the terrain, priming Southern California to ...