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It's something of a Golden State paradox: Dry winters can pave the way for dangerous fire seasons fueled by dead vegetation, but wet winters — like the one the state has seen so far — can also spell danger by spurring heaps of new growth that can later act as…

Despite months of warnings fueled by extreme heat and drought-desiccated conditions, California's deadly fire season ended with remarkably little area burned, with just 362,403 acres scorched in 2022, compared with more than 2.5 million acres the year before.

LOS ANGELES — Heat waves. Severe drought. Extreme wildfires.

In a new study, scientists found increased streamflow following wildfires in the western US has surprising effects on water supply.

LOS ANGELES — Already diminished by drought and extreme heat, California’s water supply will face yet another peril as wildfires continue to incinerate ever larger areas of forested land, according to new research.

Human-caused climate change significant driver of destructive conditions as even drier decades lie ahead, researchers say

LOS ANGELES — The extreme dryness that has ravaged the American West for more than two decades now ranks as the driest 22-year period in at least 1,200 years, and scientists have found that this megadrought is being intensified by humanity’s heating of the planet.

The megadrought bedeviling the American West got even drier last year and is becoming the deepest dry spell in more than 1200 years