California’s most terrifying disaster may not be an earthquake, but a massive atmospheric-river flood like the one that ...

The state nearly doubled its prior proposal to fund a program that city leaders have called “the backbone of the state’s ...

The court worried about other endangered species.

When a fire broke out a few miles from his Altadena, California, home the evening of Jan 7, 2025, Matt Blea and his family needed to make a crucial decision: Should they stay home, or evacuate?

Western states and the federal government are preparing supplies and emergency repair kits ahead of what is expected to be an unusually strong El Niño weather system.

In the hyperarid core of Chile's Atacama Desert, weather stations have gone decades without recording a single drop of rain — ...

High odds warm waters persist off California, with El Niño increasing risks to marine life and fisheries through 2026.

Kayaking the Los Angeles River was illegal just over a decade ago.

Scientists are raising alarms over the planet's warming oceans, which — coupled with a strong El Niño — could increase ...

A Chinese farmer’s homemade 5-ton submarine has stunned the internet. See the story behind the "Big Black Fish" river test.

Within minutes of walking on a San Diego beach, marine ornithologist Tammy Russell found the feathered carcasses — one after ...

These areas of low-pressure form on the backside of heavy thunderstorms, causing winds to surge in at fast speeds.