Besides the heartbreak of losing lives and losing homes, there are obvious economic factors here that cannot be ignored: ...

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

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

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

Actor Ron Perlman joins MSNBC's Ari Melber joins to discuss the devastating wildfires burning across California. (The Beat's ...

The climate crisis is manifesting itself in a more varied and complicated manner, including and not limited to, prolonged ...

Coverage of the firefighters' battle to improve containment over the Eaton and Palisades fires, including stories about the ...

A recent swing from wet to dry is among the most extreme on record, priming much of Southern California for wind-whipped fires.

Movements for climate justice and movements for reparations for colonial harms can reinforce each other. Haiti’s climate ...

New research from UC scientists links intensifying wet and dry swings to the atmosphere's sponge-like ability to drop and ...

The California fires erupted amid extremely dry conditions. UCLA scientists say extreme heat linked to climate change was a ...

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