Al Roker talks to climate scientist Alexander Gershunov about the conditions that made the L.A. wildfires so devastating.

A quick scientific study finds that human-caused climate change increased the likelihood and intensity of the hot, dry and windy conditions that fanned the flames of the recent devastating Southern Ca ...

Climate change set the stage for LA wildfires by reducing rainfall, parching vegetation, and extending the overlap in drought ...

Analysis found the hot, dry and windy conditions that drove the fires were 35% more likely due to 1.3C of warming.

In California’s recent Fourth Climate Change Assessment, the Scripps team produced an ... Scripps climate scientist Janin Guzman Morales’ research on Santa Ana winds – traditionally most noted in the ...

Powerful Santa Ana winds, with gusts reaching hurricane strength, swept down the mountains outside Los Angeles and spread ...

The Los Angeles (LA) wildfires began with with the Palisades fire, which erupted the morning of Jan. 7 in Pacific Palisades as a mere brush fire. Evacuation orders were issued for that fire and by ...

"Adjudicating aid based on some political formula or … living in a state with a governor out of favor with the prevailing ...

However, a new study in Nature finds that climate change is accelerating the destabilization of animal populations worldwide. Scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz; Rutgers ...

The Western population of the monarch butterfly has declined to a near-record low with fewer than 10,000 found living in California ... fluctuation due to climate change are all to blame for ...

Last month, 150 feet of the Santa Cruz Wharf — an iconic ... and large storms are likely to become more frequent or more intense with human-induced climate change." These extreme weather events are ...