In the mix of conditions that have contributed to the most destructive fires in L.A. history, scientists say one significant ingredient is human-caused climate change. A group of UCLA climate ...

In a new quick-turn analysis, UCLA climate scientists found that climate change could be responsible for roughly a quarter of the extreme vegetation dryness present when the Palisades and Eaton ...

but as UCLA Climate Scientist Daniel Swain explained in a briefing, climate change may have set the stage by providing much of the fuel. “It’s been bone dry from about Santa Barbara southward ...

An analysis by UCLA found that about a quarter of that moisture deficit was due to the extreme heat, which was influenced by climate change. "The fact that we have a warmer or drier atmosphere ...

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Swain is on a multi-front mission to change that. From his post at the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA, Swain researches the extent to which climate change is fueling floods, ...

Climate change amplified dryness, but LA fires still extreme without it: UCLA analysis In a new quick-turn analysis, UCLA climate scientists found that climate change could be responsible for ...

These conditions limit the opportunities. Now, a new study led by UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain has found that that climate change is further reducing the overall number of days and changing ...