What remains from the fires that broke out Jan. 7 is a charred landscape, filled with skeletal trees and blackened debris.
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health is warning residents to stay cautious near recent burn scars, including torched structures or patches of land.
Fewer wildfires burn in North American forests today than in previous centuries, increasing the risk of more severe wildfires ...
Los Angeles County keeps building in hillsides and canyons even as the fire risk worsens. For a century, the lure of ...
Late last month, before the rains arrived, USC professor Seth John traveled through foothill neighborhoods devastated by the ...
"This is our Hurricane Katrina—an epochal disaster that's changing Los Angeles," said Dr. David Eisenman, whose research ...
Next comes the rest of the debris: the husks of washing machines, the chimneys standing sentry over the remains, and heaps of ...
Urban wildfires like LA’s make harmful chemicals from burning plastics and electronics that can make indoor air dangerous for months.
What can local leaders in LA and in other communities in the US and around the world do in the wake of these extreme events ...
Forever chemicals, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, do not break down, instead contaminating drinking water supplies ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Scores of Los Angeles residents returned Tuesday to wildfire-ravaged Pacific Palisades after officials ... at mitigating the environmental impacts of fire-related pollutants ...