The devastating Los Angeles fires have been a grim reminder of America’s homeowners insurance crisis, as climate change intensifies potential property damage and insurers scramble to price rising risk.
New strategies — not today’s kind of politics — are needed to make communities more fire-resistant.
Trump Calls Climate Change "a Hoax" | Vantage with Palki Sharma | N18G This year’s wildfires in Los Angeles are apocalyptic—skies glow orange, ash rains down, and evacuations reach tens of thousands.
Politicians have an agenda when they bring up forestry management or a Jewish space laser. They're trying to change the subject from fossil-fuel-driven climate change.
There was no coal baron who lighted the matches. No oil driller who dried out the terrain, priming Southern California to burn. No gas executive who decided to build residential neighborhoods in already fire-prone landscapes.
Climate scientist Ben Hamlington works on understanding the impacts of climate change. Losing his house in the Eaton Fire has given that work new meaning.
Many factors, such as strong Santa Ana winds and urban planning decisions, played into the recent destructive wildfires in the Los Angeles area. But the evidence is clear that climate change contribut
Polling shows many Americans blame climate change for the disaster.
Climate scientists PolitiFact spoke to disagreed with Trump Jr. and said climate change contributed to the Los Angeles fires’ size and destructiveness. Numerous studies have linked human-caused climate change to the western U.S.’ worsening wildfires.
The infernal blazes burning in Southern California are raising concerns about the potential airborne hazards they may be leaving behind. Even once the fires are ultimately
It’s time to require oil and gas companies to compensate communities, homeowners, businesses and even insurers for the losses.
In New York, a “Superfund” law makes fossil fuel firms pay for aid in climate disasters. Could California do the same?