As if Los Angeles doesn't have enough to contend with in the aftermath of its catastrophic fires, NASA is now warning slow ...

A confluence of factors is making wildfires worse. Among them: increasingly dramatic swings between wet and dry conditions in ...

Katie Meddins examines the Palisades Wildfires, highlighting how climate change is driving their increasing intensity and frequency. She explores the scientific factors behind these devastating fires ...

Although pieces of the analysis include degrees of uncertainty, researchers said trends show climate change increased the ...

A report by by the World Weather Attribution (WWA) looks at climate change and the likelihood of wildfire disaster in LA. Prof Gabi Hegerl FRS, Professor of Climate System Science, University of ...

A new report suggests that climate change-induced factors, like reduced rainfall, primed conditions for the Palisades and ...

They can carry boulders, trees, and cars, and travel for miles. After the Thomas fire struck in 2017, a debris flow in Montecito, California, killed 23 people and damaged or destroyed more than 400 ...

And, wildfire is also driven by hydroclimate whiplash and volatility: rapid swings between unusually wet and dry periods. Warmer temperatures can also result in more rain and heavier precipitation ...

Hydroclimate whiplash is a term used to refer to rapid weather shifts between very wet and intensely dry, and this phenomenon is increasing around the world according to a new study reported in Nature ...

Scientists say the catastrophe bears the fingerprints of climate change, which is driving a “hydroclimate whiplash” between wet and dry conditions in California. Speaking from the safety of a ...

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