As extreme weather gets worse, people in high-risk areas are confronting the reality that it’s getting harder and to insulate ...
The increased frequency and size of conflagrations like those burning in LA threaten even species that evolved with wildfires ...
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 ...
The source of more than half of all wildfires in the Western U.S. remains unknown — a knowledge gap that hampers prevention ...
As wildfires relentlessly sweep across Southern California and other parts of the world, Manzhu Yu, an assistant professor of ...
About 1,600 policies for Pacific Palisades homeowners were dropped by State Farm in July, the state insurance office says.
The Palisades and Eaton wildfires in Los Angeles County have displaced thousands of homeowners — many of whom have inadequate coverage due to the state’s broken home insurance system. And ...
The common thread between hurricanes and wildfires? Increasingly strong winds - Hurricane-force winds have major destructive ...
Southern California Edison is the latest power company in crisis, as climate change becomes an increasingly existential ...
Joan Didion wrote that “the city burning is Los Angeles’s deepest image of itself.” Since then, insurance companies and ...
Reeling from destructive wildfires, California lawmakers in 2020 passed new requirements for clearing combustible materials like dead plants and wooden furniture within 5 feet of homes in risky areas.