In Los Angeles’s chaparral-covered ecosystem, wildfires in the mountains are an annual ritual. But when those fires leaped ...
Where chaparral plants cover a broad area and are uniformly old and senescent, fires tend to be large and devastating. The National Park Service notes, “Southern California chaparral and coastal ...
The blazes are the result of a combination of suburban sprawl in fire-prone areas, fierce Santa Ana winds, dry conditions ...
Can a city lose an entire neighborhood now and simply shuffle on, dragging the local memory like a ghost limb?
California is burning. Trump's response was wildly inaccurate and unhelpful. When I was a kid, my grandpa used to take me horseback riding in the chaparral around Los Angeles. It was dry and dusty — a ...
Fire becomes a year-round danger when Southern California is this dry.
LOS ANGELES — Many watched their homes burn on television in a state of shock.
Firefighters raced on Saturday to cut off spreading wildfires before potentially strong winds return that could push the ...
The Palisades and Eaton fires tear through homes and leave at least five dead. Smaller fires also add to state of alert in ...
Most climate scientists are certain that global warming has played a critical role in the California wildfires, despite ...