Climate change is the monster we made. We are Victor Frankenstein.” (Climate Change: The Monster of our own Making, WashU, ...

I didn’t experience heavy weather this past weekend in terms of shoveling snow; instead, the rains on the West Coast caused ...

Workers who maintained trails, removed combustible debris from forests, supported firefighters and secured funds for wildfire mitigation say staffing cuts threaten public safety, especially in the ...

Drought conditions in California improved after a series of atmospheric river-fueled rain storms swept through the state.

As global warming spreads pests, diseases and toxins, new programs are developing to help medical professionals look at their ...

B.C. recently demonstrated its deep reciprocal relations with the U.S. by sending a team of highly trained wildland ...

USC research on the vanishing coastlines of Alexandria, Egypt, offers nature-based solutions for protecting coastal cities ...

An Irvine, Calif., neighborhood carefully planned to stand up to wildfires was put to the test when all homes there were undamaged by the Silverado fire in 2020. It could now offer a blueprint for ...

Houses and fire do not mix. The firestorm which hit Los Angeles in January destroyed nearly 2,000 buildings and forced ...

Years before the L.A. fires, Orchard Hills faced a fire of its own — and came out mostly unscathed due to a long ...

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Consider the floods of the geologically distant past, echoing to this day in maps of the “500-year flood zone,” known to real estate agents and few others. Most owners, sellers and buyers of homes ...