While wildfire risks for the area were broadly known, what surprised almost everyone has been the ferocity of the disaster.

Fires are notoriously hard to forecast, insurance industry experts say, because of factors ranging from rising temperature ...

Martin Staadecker's (EngSci 2T4) undergraduate work through the Engineering Science Research Opportunities Program (ESROP) ...

Elon Musk is clashing with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman over the Stargate artificial intelligence infrastructure project touted by ...

News reports last week detailed President Donald Trump’s efforts to derail offshore wind energy in the United States. But in ...

A nearly four week stretch of dry winter weather in Northern California will come to an end this Friday. Several storm ...

An economist's harrowing escape from fire and her big ideas to rescue California from its insurance doom spiral.

For a time, California's insurance system was maybe workable. Big, destructive fires used to be rarer, so the insurance ...

Widespread shifts in home building and insurance coverage are coming.

Analysis found the hot, dry and windy conditions that drove the fires were 35 more likely due to 1.3C of warming.

The following is an excerpt from a recent article on the Weather West Blog Extraordinarily sustained winter fire weather ...

An arrangement between the owners of a nuclear plant in Pennsylvania and Amazon Web Services is the first such to come before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.