Containing wildfires—never mind extinguishing them—in parched and windy conditions can be monstrously difficult. Dry ...

The California fires erupted amid extremely dry conditions. UCLA scientists say extreme heat linked to climate change was a ...

The fires devastating Los Angeles neighborhoods are just the latest reminder of Southern California’s vulnerability to ...

Critical fire weather is expected to continue until Wednesday at the earliest, increasing the risk that fires will spread ...

First, Mars had a far thinner atmosphere than had been thought ... Erosion had carved river valleys into the planet’s southern highlands. There were plains which, to expert eyes, appeared ...

“It's really just the perfect alignment of everything in the atmosphere to give you this pattern and strong ... winds is a big plunge in the temperature of the jet stream — the river of air that moves ...

Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego works to understand and protect the planet and find solutions to our most pressing environmental challenges. Humankind faces catastrophic changes in ...