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 ...

While their family home was the realization of a dream, it and many others like it are also part of a trend in which urban and suburban sprawl has ... and Director of the California Center for ...

In California’s fire-stoked debate over how aggressively to manage both nature and urban sprawl, Australia can share both empathy and insight.

Experts in fire mitigation and climate science said LA should use the fires as an opportunity to design more resilient communities.

Besides burning the most urban area, the Eaton and Palisades fires are the largest ever for California in January. Alexandra Syphard, a senior research scientist at the Conservation Biology Institute, ...

Southern California is now in a state of emergency ... Additionally, overgrown vegetation, climate change, and urban sprawl increase fire risk by providing more fuel and bringing wildfires closer ...

Several Los Angeles neighborhoods remain under evacuation orders due to the devastating Palisades fire.

Urban areas continue to sprawl into wildland ... The fires are likely to be among the most destructive in California history, according to the state agency CalFire.The Woolsey Fire eventually ...