Scientists say the week’s extreme weather is one of the hallmarks of climate change. It was a week of fire and ice.

As California oscillates between drought and deluge, wildfires rage due to "hydroclimate whiplash" driven by global warming.

In early January, soil moisture in much of Southern California was in the bottom 2 percent of historical records.

Sacramento tilts at reducing temperatures while its cities burn from failure to adapt to a variable climate.

As climate change warms the planet, wildfires have become so unpredictable and extreme that new words were invented: firenado, gigafire, fire siege — even fire pandemic. California has 78 more annual ...

Prolonged drought and powerful Santa Ana winds set up extreme conditions that have fueled the devastating wildfires in the Los Angeles area. Those conditions were compounded by climate change.

Many factors come together to cause massive, devastating fires. Two of those factors have especially clear links to climate change.

California has focused on fortifying communities against wildfires. But with growing threats, that may not be enough.

The damage is expected to far exceed the $16 billion in economic losses from Maui's wildfires two years ago. Weather now ...

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There is nothing political about the wildfires that have annihilated thousands of buildings around Los Angeles this week, ...