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

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

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

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

In the superheated 21st century, the old rules for wildfires no longer apply. John Vaillant, author of “Fire Weather,” ...

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

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 ...

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

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

Scientists have largely attributed this temperature rise to the increase of greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide and methane, in Earth's atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution.

Despite the finger-pointing about who is to blame for the spread of the LA fires, veteran climate writer Jeff Goodell ...

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