Letters: LA is burning. Let’s find common ground to fight climate change.
Besides the heartbreak of losing lives and losing homes, there are obvious economic factors here that cannot be ignored: ...
The New Yorker7h
Climate Whiplash and Fire Come to L.A.
Climate change has brought both fiercer rains and deeper droughts, leaving the city with brush like kindling—and the ...
5 inflammatory cartoons on the Los Angeles wildfires
Artists take on climate change denial, the blame game, and more ...
The Push and Pull of Los Angeles: Beauty and Danger
Somini Sengupta, a climate reporter who has lived across Los Angeles, reflects on the city, its mythology and its reckoning ...
To Be From L.A. Is to Know Its Twin Temptations, Beauty and Danger
Somini Sengupta, a Times climate reporter, reflects on a city, its mythology and a reckoning with disaster.
Hosted on MSN1h
The Fire Next Time
The city burning is Los Angeles’s deepest image of itself. . . . The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.” This was ...
Opinion: Megafires are a choice
We can mitigate the risk of catastrophic wildfires with prescribed burns. By reducing brush and other tinder, these small, ...
Los Angeles fires have scorched largest urban area in California in at least 40 years
Two wildfires still burning in Los Angeles have torched more urban area than any other fire in the state since at least the ...
Inside WA firefighters’ battle for homes in an L.A. canyon
The devastating Los Angeles County blazes have so far killed at least 27 people and razed thousands of structures.
Inquirer on MSN13h
‘Fire weather’ over Los Angeles
Fire weather” is a term increasingly used to describe the atmospheric conditions that have rendered California’s recent wildfires uncontrollable. This emerging pattern combines hot, dry air that ...
A key ‘weakness’ in LA’s wildfire strategy went unaddressed for years, Washington Post probe shows
Two years before wildfires incinerated swaths of Los Angeles, the city’s fire chief Kristin M. Crowley identified “one ...
To better predict bushfire behaviour, scientists turn to film industry tech
Film industry software is helping researchers study how climate factors influence bushfire behaviour. After another hottest year on record, climate change is heightening the risk of severe bushfires ...