In a large area with hard-scaping like downtown, temperatures can run 20 to 30 degrees higher during the day than a rural ...

The Golden State weathered 8,013 wildfires in 2025, including the destructive Palisades Fire in Southern California, fire officials reported. In all, California wildfires blackened 525,223 acres, ...

As the communities of Altadena and the Palisades continue to recover and rebuild one year after the deadly January 2025 wildfires, NBCLA is looking back at the disaster that forever changed lives, how ...

As California faces an increasing frequency of wildfires, communities are getting significantly less time to recover from ...

Long-term research in California shows that many bird populations increase after wildfires and can remain more abundant in burned areas for decades, especially following moderate fires. Although some ...

A new study of more than 200,000 children in southern California found a link between exposure to wildfire smoke in mothers and higher rates of autism in children. The causes of autism are not fully ...