Although pieces of the analysis include degrees of uncertainty, researchers said trends show climate change increased the ...

Two large wildfires that exploded on January 7 in Los Angeles were the most destructive and potentially the costliest in the city's history.  Still burning after three weeks, the Palisades and Eaton ...

A new report suggests that climate change-induced factors, like reduced rainfall, primed conditions for the Palisades and ...

Hydroclimate whiplash is a term to refer to rapid weather shifts between very wet and intensely dry, and this phenomenon is increasing around the world ... | Earth And The Environment ...

When a fire is lit, winds can serve as a blow torch, helping it quickly spread. Two of California’s largest wildfires this month were driven by hurricane-force winds gusting up to 100 mph. Videos ...

Climate change has brought both fiercer rains and deeper droughts, leaving the city with brush like kindling—and the ...

Rapid swings from intensely wet conditions to extreme dryness are becoming more common, according to a new study. Scientists ...

“Hydroclimate whiplash” – or rapid swings between intensely dry and extremely wet periods of weather – is happening more ...

Lightning, sparks from cars or power lines, campfires and arsonists set areas aflame. Dry Santa Ana winds (40-70 mph, with gusts of 120-150 mph) whip fires into infernos. Depleted, defunded fire ...

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

In a new quick-turn analysis, UCLA climate scientists found that climate change could be responsible for roughly a quarter of ...

This cycle between extremely dry conditions and extremely wet conditions is known as "hydroclimate whiplash," and in an eerie coincidence, Swain and colleagues, including Danielle Touma, a climate ...