Heavy rain and risk of ‘life-threatening’ debris flows prompt evacuation warnings in LA fire areas as snow hits the Midwest
Two significant storms are hitting two different parts of the country at the same time as a frenzied weather pattern shows no ...
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LA wildfires put climate, risk management in focus for banks
The recent Los Angeles wildfires are only the latest reminder that banks need to steel themselves against climate change both ...
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Here's how climate change fueled the Los Angeles fires
Extreme conditions helped fuel the fast-moving fires that destroyed thousands of homes. Scientists are working to figure out how climate change played a role in the disaster.
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Rainy forecast renews debris slide fears in Southern California as winter storms bring snow and ice to eastern US
Portions of California’s Los Angeles and Ventura counties – including areas burned by the Palisades and Eaton fires – are under a Level 3 of 4 risk of flooding rainfall Thursday, according ...
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2.2 billion gallons of water flowed out of California reservoirs because of Trump’s order to open dams
There are two major problems, water experts said: The newly released water will not flow to Los Angeles ... reliant on groundwater and winter precipitation stored in state reservoirs to irrigate ...
Climate change increased the odds of Los Angeles' devastating fires, researchers say
As Los Angeles reels from the loss of lives and homes to the Easton and Palisades fires, scientists are asking why the events of this January have been so catastrophic.
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Trio of storms threatens nearly every weather hazard, including ‘life-threatening’ debris flows in LA fire burn areas
More than 34 million people in California are under a level 2 of 4 risk of flooding rainfall Thursday, according to the WPC. The threat area encompasses San Francisco, Sacramento, Los Angeles and ...
'Hotter, drier, and more flammable': Scientists say climate change fueled LA fires
A rapid analysis of the devastating Los Angeles County wildfires concluded ... it was like someone flipped on four light ...
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Climate change made conditions that fed California wildfires more likely, intense: Study
The team used observations of past weather and computer simulations that compared what happened this month to a what-if world without the 1.3 degrees Celsius (2.3 degrees Celsius) of human-caused ...
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Farmworkers feed the country, but who protects them from wildfire smoke?
Thousands of farmworkers labored in fields in Ventura County in late January in wildfire smoke. They have little to no ...
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Climate change made devastating LA fires more likely, scientists say
Human-driven climate change made the devastating Los Angeles wildfires more likely ... The researchers examined the “fire weather index” which uses the temperature, humidity, rainfall and wind speed ...
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What the Air Quality Index doesn’t tell us about the air
Naturally, people in the Los Angeles area are reaching for their phones to see what the Air Quality Index (AQI ... But human-caused climate change is causing these blazes to become more severe ...