Throughout history, humanity has strived to understand and control the forces of nature: building dams to hold back raging rivers, planting forests to prevent erosion, whatever it took. Yet despite ...

When examining climate disasters, it’s important to distinguish them from weather events unrelated to climate change and from natural disasters like the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, which was caused by ...

SOMETIMES we feel as if we’ve seen it all. L.A. has been attacked by aliens and zombies in the movies but none of that compares to the real-life destruction we saw in Altadena and Pacific Palisades.

From the devastating and deadly wildfires in Southern California to the one-two punch of climate change-fueled hurricanes slamming into Florida and the Southeast, natural disasters that have impacted ...

Editor’s note: “Behind the News“ is the product of Sun staff assisted by the Sun’s AI lab, which includes a variety of tools such as Anthropic’s Claude, Perplexity AI, Google Gemini and ChatGPT. The ...

A city devastated; neighbors coming to its aid; the hunt for a scapegoat: Though the Angelenos enduring wildfires today lead lives dramatically different from those of the people who survived the ...