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

Climate change has likely contributed to the unprecedented wildfires that are raging through Southern California, research shows.

Thus, climate change will jeopardize California’s dependence on mountain snowpack as a natural water reservoir which stores water from winter storms and gradually releases it in spring and summer. As ...

said University of California Merced climate and fire scientist John Abatzoglou. Other scientists have preliminarily linked those jet stream plunges to climate change. Santa Ana winds are ...

Research shows rapid shifts between wet and dry extremes are increasing. Scientists say this 'hydroclimate whiplash' contributed to California's devastating fires.

Extreme weather events like heat waves and severe storms will potentially become more frequent or intense due to human-induced climate change, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The scientists said without the higher temperatures climate change is ... across Southern California. They noted that research has projected more extreme atmospheric river storms because of ...

New studies are finding the fingerprints of climate change in these ... atmosphere can be linked to heat-trapping gases that ...

A bill introduced in California’s state Legislature would make fossil fuel companies legally liable for damages from climate ...

As disasters linked to climate change become ... typically seen as being on the front lines of climate change," the Senate report said. "Florida, California, and Louisiana have been seen as ...

Abby Rafeek, a 14-year-old high school student from Gardena, California, says decision-makers aren’t doing enough to address climate change. “I think if we ... The record-breaking storms washing away ...

The wildfires currently ripping through suburbs of Los Angeles in California ... climate change might be slowing the pace – rather than the velocity – at which hurricanes move. This means that ...