The Los Angeles area is battling a series of massive wildfires that continue to rip through its picturesque mountains and hillsides — creating a hellscape of burned-out neighborhoods and ...

The affected region’s geography and weather, paired with climate change and suburban sprawl in fire-prone areas, created a vulnerable situation. For the Los Angeles area, the recent string of ...

"But people don't want to hold suburban sprawl accountable. We are all fairly complicit in this land-use pattern," she said. The fires in Los Angeles continue to burn despite all the resources ...

Two wildfires still burning in Los Angeles have torched more urban area than any other fire in the state since at least the ...

The city faces a choice: remake itself into something largely familiar or take a bolder path and emerge as a new metropolis.

In Los Angeles’s chaparral-covered ecosystem, wildfires in the mountains are an annual ritual. But when those fires leaped into residential neighborhoods this week, killing at least 11 people and ...

One of the defining characteristics of the greater Los Angeles region, an area of 18 million people and more than 33,000 square miles, is its enormous sprawl. So while tens of thousands have been ...

Wildfires exacerbate inequalities by destroying affordable housing stock, forcing relocations, and making rebuilding costs ...

Los Angeles is no stranger to wildfires ... What could be improved: slowing urban sprawl in fire-prone areas The Woolsey Fire in 2018 was another fast-moving fire, spurred by winds, eventually ...

Hotter air holds more moisture, which means that rainfall can be heavier, or increased evaporation can exacerbate droughts. One study has found that instances of this “hydroclimate whiplash” around ...