In the wake of the raging California wildfires, environmental groups are shifting the climate conversation away from mitigation, toward adaptation and resilience.
The impact of wildfires is greater than we can imagine. 🌍🔥 As California faces these devastating flames, we must rethink our approach to climate and community resilience. Join me in exploring the profound changes ahead!
Chris Wright’s arguments are set to draw scrutiny from Senate Democrats during his confirmation hearing for the Energy Department post.
The wildfires currently impacting Southern California have renewed the focus on the far-reaching impacts of climate change and the critical importance of emergency preparedness. The destruction caused by these fires has left lasting effects on both affected communities and local ecosystems.
Gov. Newsom tilts at carbon emissions, not fire mitigation.
Health and climate experts say wildfire smoke is setting California back in its efforts to reduce air pollution.
The fires devastating Los Angeles neighborhoods are just the latest reminder of Southern California’s vulnerability to climate change. Where wildfires once were a periodic phenomenon, the region
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The Fire Next Time
The city burning is Los Angeles’s deepest image of itself. . . . The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.” This was Joan Didion writing in 1968 on the effect that the Santa Ana winds have had on the psyche and landscape of Southern California.
As the U.S. ban on TikTok takes effect, a weather expert explains the conundrum it creates with risk and science communication.
Mr. Davis’s ideas were shocking when the essay appeared, but the events of recent years have won a lot of people over to his way of thinking. After the 2021 Dixie fire in rural Northern California, a Los Angeles Times op-ed series raised the possibility of abandoning small fire-prone towns in favor of supposedly more defensible cities.
Besides the heartbreak of losing lives and losing homes, there are obvious economic factors here that cannot be ignored: