The devastating fire was reported to be the largest on record among any of California's Channel Islands.

Patrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty Images A man stands amid the rubble of his parents’ home, destroyed during the Palisades Fire, in Pacific Palisades on JAn. 9, 2025.

In 2019 and again in 2021, Penn State researchers in the Department of Geography walked a series of 1,000 square foot plots in California's Lassen Volcanic National Park. The goal was to see how the ...

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