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

Looking ahead to the weekend, temperatures will jump more than 10 degrees above normal. Sunday will be the warmest day, with ...

A powerful winter storm has slammed Norfolk, Virginia, shutting down major roadways and leaving drivers stranded in a sea of ...

Areas of Uncertainty - The relationship between climate change and Santa Ana winds -- which form in western deserts, then heat up and dry out as they flow down California's mountains -- remains ...

Weather data show how humankind’s burning of fossil fuels made the hot, dry, windy weather more likely, setting the stage for the Los Angeles wildfires.

A new report suggests that climate change-induced factors, like reduced rainfall, primed conditions for the Palisades and ...

SACRAMENTO— A bill to assess fees on the largest fossil fuel polluters to pay for the climate damage they’ve caused in ...

The research couldn’t specifically quantify how much, if any, climate change affected the Santa Ana winds. Craig Clements, a climate scientist and director of wildfire study at San Jose State ...

Climate change was a major factor behind the hot, dry weather that gave rise to the devastating LA fires, a scientific study ...

Climate change amplified those conditions ... This means the dry season and the warm Santa Ana winds that spread fires are increasingly overlapping, the authors stated. “Drought conditions are more ...