Photos from Los Angeles County show the shocking extent of damage caused by the Palisades Fire and other wildfires.

Dry vegetation helped fuel the fires that spread through the Los Angeles area, burning tens of thousands of acres.

Climate scientists PolitiFact spoke to disagreed with Trump Jr. and said climate change contributed to the Los Angeles fires’ size and destructiveness. Numerous studies have linked human-caused ...

Hydroclimate whiplash -- the rapid shift between wet and dry conditions -- likely contributed to the severity of the ...

A climate scientist discusses how to think about and weigh the variables that led to the current disaster.

– Two national reviews – one by a blue-ribbon commission and the other by the National Academy of Engineering and National Research Council – investigated the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon explosion and ...

While the end to the fire danger is not yet in sight, experts say the hazards that will remain in its wake will be severe.

The state is seeing a sharp water divide this year, with lots of rain in the north while the south has stayed dry. A ...

Containing wildfires—never mind extinguishing them—in parched and windy conditions can be monstrously difficult. Dry ...

Thousands of people have been put under evacuation orders due to the Southern California wildfires. At least five people have died as a result of the fires, but authorities said they expect the death ...

A FEMA Disaster Recovery Center for Angelenos impacted by the fires has also been set up at the UCLA Research Park (formerly ...

In early January, the soil moisture in much of Southern California was in the bottom 2% of historical records for that day in ...