NOAA has declared that a La Niña is underway. This cool weather event is likely to be shorter and weaker than usual, but will still affect global weather and climate. When you purchase through ...

Forecasters have warned of more horror days ahead, with predictions of “life-threatening and destructive and widespread winds” that officials fear could spread the blazes further. Two large ...

Nonetheless, LA officials have said they hope the “tide is turning” in the fight against the fires but the impact is the worst ever seen in the city and forecasters have predicted critical ...

But those costs could rise even higher, with estimates that insured losses from the LA fires could be as high as US$20 billion (A$32.5 bn). Andrew Gissing, the CEO of the consultancy Natural ...

The answers are: yes, and not very. The areas north of LA have always been at high fire risk. That’s because of the mix of the fuels from trees and plants and the uneven terrain; canyons and ridges ...

Read more: LA fires: Why fast-moving wildfires and those started by human activities are more destructive and harder to contain Nights are warming faster than days globally, and dusk has brought ...

Los Angeles County supervisor Kathryn Barger has provided an update on the unfolding situation on the California wildfires and addressed reports that residents are being denied assistance by the ...

Emerging research on so-called hydroclimate whiplashes (as reported in the Herald last week) reveal how a more variable climate elevated LA’s fire risk. Unseasonably heavy rainfall in early 2024 ...

I’ve walked the streets of LA, its history as vivid as its fires. Now, the city burns, and its dreams smoulder in the ash Joan Didion, that most perceptive observer of Los Angeles life ...

An early social media influencer, her fake cancer diagnosis and the untangling of a complicated web of lies will play out in the Netflix original series “Apple Cider Vinegar,” a drama inspired ...

The show chronicles the meteoric rise and fall of Belle Gibson, the Australian single mother who launched a wellness empire by convincing the world she had brain cancer and was successfully curing ...

The blaze, named the Sunset fire, has prompted the evacuation of some of the most famous parts of LA, including the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The Lidia fire in Acton, north-east of Santa Clarita ...