As desperate firefighters work tirelessly to extinguish the flames devastating Los Angeles, the Mirror takes a look at why such calamitous wildfires begin and why they spread with such terrifying spee ...

A study published Thursday has put the blame for the wildfires ravaging parts of Los Angeles on an emerging climate ...

Research shows rapid shifts between wet and dry extremes are increasing. Scientists say this 'hydroclimate whiplash' ...

Climate change has made the grasses and shrubs that are fuelling the Los Angeles fires more vulnerable to burning, scientists ...

Eleven months ago, the Los Angeles area was under water. Nearly a foot of rain fell in just a couple of days in early ...

The Palisades Fire, one of the most destructive blazes, has already scorched over 17,000 acres and destroyed nearly 10,000 ...

Hydroclimate whiplash – rapid swings between intensely wet and dangerously dry weather – has already increased globally due to climate change, with further large increases expected as warming ...

The same confluence of weather whiplash and extreme winds was behind the Camp Fire, Swain said. That November 2018 blaze in ...

It’s supposed to be the rainy season in Southern California, but the last time Los Angeles measured more than a tenth-inch of ...

With every new election, more than 1 million acres have flickered in and out of federal protection. People on both sides of the fight over Bears Ears feel jerked around. In southeastern Utah, the ...

Here’s what experts say is turning Southern California’s speedy wildfires into a deadly urban conflagration that is defying ...

On December 3, 2024, the Eastern District of Texas issued a nationwide preliminary injunction suspending enforcement of the ...