In a state that averages more than 7,500 wildfires a year some California homeowners keep helmets and fire hoses handy. However, the Los Angeles fires demonstrate a new reality: Wildfires in the state ...

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 ...

New York and Vermont recently passed laws like these, which require energy companies to pay climate damages and will likely ...

Coverage of the firefighters' battle to improve containment over the Eaton and Palisades fires, including stories about the latest death count and victim frustration.

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

Hydroclimate whiplash, or abrupt shifts between dry and wet weather, made Southern California vulnerable to the wildfires.

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 ...