A rapid analysis of the devastating Los Angeles County wildfires concluded that while climate change didn't directly cause the fires, it intensified dangerous conditions and made the fires more likely. In a report released by World Weather Attribution on Tuesday evening, a group of 32 international researchers used its peer-reviewed rapid assessment method to evaluate how climate change fueled the firestorm. The two largest blazes, the Palisades and Eaton fires, killed 29 people, torched more than 40,000 acres and destroyed more than 16,000 structures.

Climate change made Southern California’s dangerous wildfire conditions in early January 35% more likely than they would have been before the industrial era, according to a new analysis by the scientific group World Weather Attribution. Greenhouse gas pollution raised temperatures, made drought more likely and extended the duration of fire season, contributing to the most destructive fire disaster in U.S. history, killing at least 28 people and destroying more than 16,000 structures. The fires were also 6% more intense because of climate change, the analysis found. "The fires that we...

The number of deaths from the wildfires that destroyed entire communities in the Los Angeles area this month has risen to 29, the county medical examiner’s office said Monday. The new reported fatality was someone who died in a hospital from the Palisades Fire, which erupted on Jan. 7 and destroyed thousands of homes in the Pacific Palisades and on the Pacific Coast, the office said in a statement. The Palisades Fire has destroyed a confirmed 6,837 homes and other structures and burned 23,448 acres after igniting during extreme winds...