Al Roker talks to climate scientist Alexander Gershunov about the conditions that made the L.A. wildfires so devastating.

Fires across the Los Angeles area have killed more than two dozen people. Weaker winds enabled firefighters to make inroads ...

Fires across the Los Angeles area have killed at least 25 people. The Palisades and Eaton fires continue to burn in Southern ...

Extreme weather conditions will be more common, according to the study, adding fresh urgency to a burgeoning group of climate ...

The Santa Ana winds fanning wildfires that have killed at least 25 people in Southern California and destroyed ... including fuel load—flammable material, especially dry brush and trees.

What begins as wildfire becomes an urban conflagration, with homes serving as the main fuel ... Southern California and other vulnerable areas need a transformational shift in mindset away from ...

The highway was closed southbound at Grapevine Road in southern Kern County and northbound at California ... a fire under northeast winds, because there is an almost contiguous, very dense fuel ...

Fires and the notorious Santa Ana winds that fuel their spread are a natural ... wildlife adapted to the wildfires that shaped the Southern California landscape over thousands of years.

This transformation is an overlooked driver for the increasingly destructive wildfires in California and around the world. Southern California ... evolved alongside heavy livestock grazing and ...

Climate change increased the likelihood of the recent Southern California wildfires ... reducing the fuel load that can lead to catastrophic wildfire. Another, BurnBot, has developed a remotely ...