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Incarcerated firefighters from the Growlersburg crew hike up a mountain to control the Hughes Fire in Los Angeles County on Jan. 23. Credit: Apu Gomes/AFP via Getty Images

Pride, Peril and $56 a Month: One Formerly Incarcerated California Firefighter’s Story

Interview by Aynsley O’Neill, Living on Earth

Monterey County firefighters clear shrubbery around houses in Brentwood, Calif. as the Palisades Fire grows closer on Jan. 11. Credit: Jon Putman/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Global Warming Set the Stage for Los Angeles Fires

By Bob Berwyn

Khaled Fouad (left) and Mimi Laine embrace as they inspect a family member’s property that was destroyed by the Eaton Fire on Jan. 9 in Altadena, Calif. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

LA Fire Victims Have Become ‘Dysregulated,’ Making it Hard to Focus and Make Decisions 

By Nina Dietz

Tiny Flames With a Huge Impact: How Embers Spread Wildfires in California and Beyond

By Bhabna Banerjee

Passengers record images of the Palisades and Eaton fires from a commercial flight above Los Angeles on Jan. 11. Credit: Michael Kodas/Inside Climate News

A Novelist Imagined a Climate-Driven Wildfire Burning LA, Then Watched It Happen

By Michael Kodas

A family of deer gather around burned trees from the Palisades Fire at Will Rogers State Park on Jan. 9 in Los Angeles. Credit: Apu Gomes/Getty Images

Are Southern California Fires Outpacing Wildlife’s Ability to Adapt?

By Liza Gross

Susan Nedell stands outside her home that is being rebuilt after it burned in the Marshall fire on Aug. 28, 2023 in Louisville, Colo. Credit: RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images

Wildfire Rebuilds Are an Opportunity to Build More Resilient and Sustainable Homes. But That Comes With Controversy

By Wyatt Myskow

A pedestrian walks across a flooded street in Honolulu on Dec. 7, 2021, the morning after a powerful tropical storm known as a Kona Low hit the Hawaii islands. Credit: Eugene Tanner/AFP via Getty Images

The Supreme Court Let Lawsuits Against Oil Companies Proceed. This Is What It Means

Interview by Aynsley O’Neill, Living on Earth

Smoke and flames overwhelm the Altadena area of Los Angeles County during the Eaton Fire on Jan. 8. Credit: Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images

Smoke and Ash Made More Toxic by the Contents of Burning Homes Threaten Residents of LA and Beyond

By Audrey Gray and Andrew Robinson

A firefighter monitors the spread of a wildfire on Jan. 13 in Oxnard, Calif. Credit: Etienne Laurent/AFP via Getty Images

‘Virtually Any City on Earth Can Burn Now’

By Kiley Bense

Los Angeles Fires Are Exacerbating the City’s Housing Crisis

By Kiley Price

In Altadena, whole blocks were leveled by a fire that jumped street to street. Credit: Jireh Deng/Inside Climate News

The Dichotomy of a Deadly Paradise—How Urban Sprawl and Climate Change Fuel LA’s  Fires

By Jireh Deng

A man comforts his daughter on the charred ruins of their family home burned in the Eaton Fire on Jan. 9 in Altadena, Calif. Credit: Zoë Meyers/AFP via Getty Images

Climate Trauma Is a Thing. Here’s What the Research Reveals

Interview by Jenni Doering, Living on Earth

As Wildfires Threaten Urban Areas Like Los Angeles, ‘Planning for the Unprecedented’ Is Crucial, Experts Say

By Kiley Price

A firefighter sprays water on a house to protect it from the Eaton Fire in the Altadena neighborhood on Jan. 8, 2025 in Pasadena, Calif. Credit: Nick Ut/Getty Images

Misinformation Spreads Like Wildfire Online While LA Neighborhoods Burn

By Wyatt Myskow, Martha Pskowski

Firefighters fight flames from the Palisades Fire burning the Theatre Palisades during a powerful windstorm on Jan. 8 in Los Angeles. The fast-moving wildfire is threatening homes in the coastal Pacific Palisades neighborhood amid intense Santa Ana winds and dry conditions in Southern California. Credit: Apu Gomes/Getty Images

The Unusually Strong Force Behind the Apocalyptic Fires in Los Angeles

By Umair Irfan, Vox

Wildland firefighters conduct a prescribed burn in the Stanislaus-Tuolumne Experimental Forest near Pinecrest, Calif. Credit: Andrew Avitt/USDA Forest Service

US Forest Service Hiring Freeze Could Have Long-Term Impacts

By Zoë Rom

A firefighting helicopter flies near as a home burns from the Mountain Fire on Nov. 6 in Camarillo, Calif. Researchers have found areas exposed to high wildfire hazard will double between 2020 and 2070. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

The Sunbelt’s Growing Population Faces Increasing Climate Hazards

By Wyatt Myskow

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