Al Roker talks to climate scientist Alexander Gershunov about the conditions that made the L.A. wildfires so devastating.

The team used observations of past weather and computer simulations that compared what happened this month to a what-if world without the 1.3 degrees Celsius (2.3 degrees Celsius) of human-caused ...

Weather data show how humankind’s burning of fossil fuels made the hot, dry, windy weather more likely, setting the stage for the Los Angeles wildfires.

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

In general, Charlotte and North Carolina are not typically thought of as fire-prone regions. However, the Southeast ...

See more coverage of top California stories here | Download ... t specifically quantify how much, if any, climate change affected the Santa Ana winds. Craig Clements, a climate scientist and ...

The devastating fires that swept through parts of Los Angeles, U.S., in January raged for more than three weeks before being ...

Extreme conditions helped fuel the fast-moving fires that destroyed thousands of homes. Scientists are working to figure out how climate change played a role in the disaster.

The early sparks were fanned into infernos by the now infamous Santa Ana winds - hot ... Patrick Gonzalez, a climate change scientist and forest ecologist at California's Berkley University ...

Southern California has “some of the best ... The research couldn’t specifically quantify how much, if any, climate change affected the Santa Ana winds. Craig Clements, a climate scientist ...

A rapid analysis of the devastating Los Angeles County wildfires concluded that while climate change didn't ... department at the University of California Los Angeles. That included more extreme than ...