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Floods, droughts, then fires: Hydroclimate whiplash is speeding up globally
New research from UC scientists links intensifying wet and dry swings to the atmosphere's sponge-like ability to drop and ...
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Weather West: Hydroclimate Volatility On A Warming Earth
The following is an excerpt from a recent article on the Weather West Blog Note: This special Weather West article focuses on ...
Why LA Is On Fire (It's Not Just Climate Change)
The fires that have engulfed Los Angeles cap the hottest decade in history. Each year in the last ten was record-warm, but ...
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Climate and environment updates: Fires would have been extreme without climate change
The climate crisis is not a distant threat; it’s happening right now and affecting what matters most to us. Hurricanes ...
What California’s hydroclimate whiplash means for wildfires
Extreme Santa Ana winds whipped flames across Los Angeles County last week, with gusts catapulting embers across tinder-dry landscapes spreading devastating wildfires across the region. The Palisades ...
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Los Angeles fires news and resources: What’s happening across the UC system and how you can help
A FEMA Disaster Recovery Center for Angelenos impacted by the fires has also been set up at the UCLA Research Park (formerly ...
Los Angeles Magazine21h
Destroyed Pasadena Synagogue Holds a Message: Make Polluters Pay for Their Plague
Today’s climate driven disasters are the result of more than a century of extracting and burning fossil fuels,' says Altadena-based climate lawyer Maya Golden-Krasner, deputy director of the Center fo ...
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Hydroclimate whiplash sparked by global warming fuels LA wildfires
By Newsbase Los Angeles’ deadly wildfires have been sparked by a phenomenon known as “hydroclimate whiplash”, the LA Times reported on January 9. According to scientists, hydroclimate whiplash occurs ...