As extreme weather gets worse, people in high-risk areas are confronting the reality that it’s getting harder and to insulate ...

Measures like controlled burns, increased funding for fire departments, and more thoughtful residential planning in wildfire-prone areas can help California going forward, but it will take more to ...

As wildfires relentlessly sweep across Southern California and other parts of the world, Manzhu Yu, an assistant professor of geography at Penn State, offered insights into the ongoing crisis in Los ...

The common thread between hurricanes and wildfires? Increasingly strong winds - Hurricane-force winds have major destructive ...

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

Climate change has brought both fiercer rains and deeper droughts, leaving the city with brush like kindling—and the ...

A Times climate reporter reflects on a city, its mythology and a reckoning with disaster.

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

In a state that averages more than 7,500 wildfires a year some California homeowners keep helmets and fire hoses handy. However, the Los Angeles fires demonstrate a new reality: Wildfires in the state ...

People who have evacuated due to the wildfires can apply to stay at Hilton hotels for free, for up to one week. Hilton is ...

On arrival in 1542 to what was later to become Los Angeles, the Spanish explorer Juan Cabrillo saw smoke rising from ...

We explain what’s known about how the catastrophic L.A. wildfires started and the factors that scientists do -- and don’t -- ...