Firefighters in Los Angeles continue to battle devastating wildfires that have killed at least 27 people and left thousands of homes destroyed. A new fire also provoked evacuation orders north of the city.
As Stacy Morford, environment and climate editor for The Conversation in the US, put it: “It’s every Californian’s nightmare.”
Today on The Conversation Weekly podcast, we’re revisiting an interview we ran in late 2023 with Emily Lindsey, a paleoecologist who works at the La Brea tar pits archaeological site in Los Angeles, about a wildfire warning from southern California’s ice age history.
