2011 California wildfires

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California wildfires: What we know about L.A.-area fires, what caused them, who is affected and more

Fueled by powerful winds and dry conditions, a series of ferocious wildfires erupted the second week of January and roared across the Los Angeles area.

The New York Times · 2d

California Wildfires: Scorched region gets its first significant rain in months.

Cool, wet weather has spread through Los Angeles County, bringing intermittent rain showers and a chance of isolated thunderstorms through Monday, with gusty winds and perhaps even some small hail. Areas affected by the Palisades and Eaton fires are under a flood watch through Monday afternoon.

USA TODAY on MSN · 1d

California wildfires lose steam but welcomed rain brings different threats

Much-needed rain has begun to fall over Southern California, bringing relief to the drought-stricken region but also the threat of toxic runoff.

you can blame climate change for the LA wildfires

The Associated Press on MSN · 50m

Study says climate change made conditions that fed California wildfires more likely, more intense

A quick scientific study finds that human-caused climate change increased the likelihood and intensity of the hot, dry and windy conditions that fanned the flames of the recent devastating Southern California wildfires.

National Geographic news · 52m

Climate change made the L.A. wildfires 35 percent more likely

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

The Verge · 45m

Climate change made the Los Angeles wildfires more likely

Climate change helped to set the stage for the devastating Los Angeles fires this month, a new study by 32 researchers shows. The Palisades and Eaton wildfires broke out in early January and soon killed at least 28 people,

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The science behind the LA wildfires

Epic events like the Southern California wildfires do not have a singular cause. While we don’t yet know the official causes ...

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Wildfires are breaking out in Southern California as the ‘most destructive windstorm’ in over a decade hits

Wildfires began breaking out in Southern California Tuesday morning as a life-threatening ... The “life-threatening” windstorm “will likely be the most destructive” since a 2011 event “that did ...

Truthout3d

New Research Links Wildfire Retardants to Dangerous Heavy Metal Pollution

The hot-pink mix of water and chemicals, which is sprayed from planes to combat wildfires, is under renewed scrutiny.

32mon MSN

California’s federal lands are hemorrhaging carbon dioxide. Wildfires are largely to blame

A study from the U.S. Geological Survey found the ecosystems on California's public lands are losing the carbon they've locked up from the atmosphere faster than any other state, driven in large part ...

USA Today4d

Firefighters battling LA fires as rain expected to come soon

Like other recent wildfires in Southern California, it was fueled by relentless winds and low humidity. New blazes cropped up in San Diego County this week, including one showing "extreme fire ...

NBC Los Angeles4d

‘It is devastation.' President Trump visits LA for tour of Palisades Fire destruction

Gavin Newsom when he arrived in Los Angeles Friday for a tour of areas damaged by two of the deadliest and destructive wildfires on record in California. The visit, the first trip of his second ...

The LA County fires devastated homes in the wildland urban interface. Here’s what that is

Californians live in the wildland urban interface. And when fires sweep through it, they often leave destruction.

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What we know about the victims killed in the California wildfires

Twenty-eight people have died across the Los Angeles area. Officials have said the true death toll isn’t known as the fires ...

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