The tiny town of Scotia, California on the state’s remote Redwood Coast was built up entirely around a large sawmill. An ...

The mountains and foothills of Los Angeles County are in “extreme drought” conditions, about 36% of the county, explained ...

The wildfire disaster in Los Angeles underscores the importance of climate change adaptation. We built our infrastructure for a world that no longer exists.

Lawmakers are calling on the state to expedite rules for ember-resistant defensible space zones around homes that some ...

California is just too ... power generation outside of active fire zones, according to a new study from Colorado State University. EPA’s power plant climate rule would accelerate greenhouse ...

The blazes are the result of a combination of suburban sprawl in fire-prone areas, fierce Santa Ana winds, dry conditions ...

Weather conditions have been exceptionally dry so far, but when rain does pick up, that can wash fire debris into the water system, stressing water treatment plants. Southern California and the ...

Reeling from destructive wildfires, including the deadliest in California history, state lawmakers in 2020 passed new ...

Why the climate crisis could change that Coastal chaparral, the natural ecosystem in much of central and southern California ... She'd like to see more buffer zones, vegetation management and ...

But when a wildfire encroaches upon neighborhoods abutting wild terrain—a zone ... against climate change. Whatever one thinks of the urgency of that issue, the emphasis on climate over more proximate ...

The last time Trump was president, he visited numerous disaster zones ... climate scientists at World Weather Attribution found that climate change boosted the storm’s rainfall by 10%. In ...