A new report suggests that climate change-induced factors, like reduced rainfall, primed conditions for the Palisades and ...
Moisture sweeping down the coast will drench much of California, including areas that burned severely just a month ago.
Two new studies have shown how climate change can increase disease. Both of these reports were focused on the increase in cases of coccidioidomycosis... | Microbiology ...
Swain has said the "hydroclimate whiplash" in California has increased fire risk twofold: "First, by greatly increasing the growth of flammable grass and brush in the months leading up to fire season, ...
But to Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at U.C.L.A. and author of the Weather West blog, one significant factor already seems clear: "hydroclimate whiplash." The phenomenon is characterized by a very ...
The Los Angeles fires, at least in part, are a product of this sort of “hydroclimate whiplash.” In 2023 and 2024, the city experienced unusually wet winters, which spurred the growth of ...
Swain has said the "hydroclimate whiplash" in California has increased fire risk twofold: "First, by greatly increasing the growth of flammable grass and brush in the months leading up to fire ...