Forest Service Layoffs and Frozen Funds Increase the Risk From Wildfires
The Trump administration’s decision to fire 3,400 workers and pause funds used for wildfire prevention comes as wildfires are ...
California's Terrible Wildfires Exposed a Variety of State Policy Failures
The wildfires will be one of the costliest natural disasters in U.S. history. Hopefully they will also teach policymakers ...
California’s High-Risk Insurer Gets $1 Billion Bailout After L.A. Fires
The move will likely lead to higher costs for households across the state, and may push more insurers to leave, intensifying ...
The way L.A. thinks about fires is all wrong, two experts say. They explain how to do better
Two wildfire experts argue that the L.A. destruction didn't have to be as bad as it was. The question isn't whether we can ...
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Opinion | What the LA wildfires tell us about climate change
As of 7 a.m. on January 26, the wildfires in Los Angeles were 90 percent contained after having burned thousands of acres.
L.A. region to get respite with ‘very low impact weather’ in coming days
A "warming and drying trend" is predicted through the weekend, and it could be the end of the month before any more rain ...
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Innovation Is the Key to Containing the Worst Effects of Climate Change
Adaptation can also involve changing how and where people live, prohibiting them from rebuilding in areas that repeatedly ...
Why Los Angeles Burned
The Los Angeles fires were burning evidence of how dangerous this delusion is. The fires were a bonfire of bad ideas that had ...
The LA fires were man-made, but not like they say
Now entirely contained, the Los Angeles County fires should not be allowed to fade into the history books, chalked up to yet ...
John Legend and Chrissy Teigen reveal plans to leave California permanently
EGOT singer-songwriter and model have considered returning to the East Coast following the devastating California wildfires ...
Climate-driven insurance crisis
The climate crisis is costing us a lot of money — higher utility bills, higher health-care costs, skyrocketing housing prices ...
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Hotter, drier, faster, stronger: The role climate change did - and did not - play in the California wildfires
They also found the fire season ... Patrick Gonzalez, a climate change scientist and forest ecologist at California's Berkley University, who was not involved with the study, said: "Most ...