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The White Rock Lake wildfire hammered B.C.'s Paxton Valley last summer, levelling houses, destroying ranchland and killing cattle. But even after the worst of the fire had moved on, residents knew one nasty wind could whip up the flames again.

The White Rock Lake wildfire hammered B.C.'s Paxton Valley last summer, levelling houses, destroying ranchland and killing cattle. But even after the worst of the fire had moved on, residents knew one nasty wind could whip up the flames again.

It may seem as if California is always either flooding or on fire. But this weather whiplash isn't new. It's been going on for 50 years.

Most scientists researching California's extreme weather have focused their investigations on the last decade. But new UArizona research finds that an increasing trend in extreme weather began half a century ago.

Ecologists estimate that 15 to 37% of plant and animal species will go extinct as a direct result of the rapidly changing climate.

Ecologists estimate that 15 to 37% of species will go extinct as a direct result of climate change. But when you consider the indirect effects of climate change, extinction rates may be higher, new research suggests.

Ecologists estimate that 15 to 37% of plant and animal species will go extinct as a direct result of the rapidly changing climate. But new University

On the eve of his biggest movie yet, PLNU and SDSU grad Destin Daniel Cretton talks about how San Diego shaped his Hollywood life, filming during a pandemic and why directing a Marvel movie wasn't something he ever wanted to do

UW-Platteville geographers sampled oaks across the Driftless region, including some that have been growing since the 1700s. They sampled rafters from historic homes and barns built from locally harvested timber

Reading between the lines of tree rings to reconstruct exactly what happened in Alaska the year that the Laki volcano erupted half a world away in Iceland can help fine-tune future climate predictions. In June 1783, Laki spewed more sulfur into the atmosphere than any other Northern Hemisphere eruption in the last 1,000 years. The Inuit in North America tell stories about the year that summer never arrived. Benjamin Franklin, who was in France at the time, noted the “fog” that descended ove...