Mickelson is walking through the Bolt Creek burn scar. The fire started in September of 2022 and burned just shy of 15,000 acres north of Highway 2 in Washington, about halfway between Seattle and ...

While firefighters work to extinguish the Los Angeles-area wildfires, city officials and emergency managers are also worried about what could come next. The potential for rain the weekend of Jan.

The landslide that occurred in Blatten in the canton of Valais at the end of May 2025 and the one in the village of Brienz in Graubünden in June 2023 remind us of the potential for landslide hazards ...

As the Los Angeles area begins cleaning up from devastating wildfires, city officials and emergency managers are worried about what could come next. The National Weather Service issued a flash flood ...

After a wildfire, the danger continues, especially during torrential rain that can set off fast-moving landslides known as debris flows. By Amy Graff Amy Graff is a San Francisco-based reporter on The ...

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In October and November 2007, an unprecedented series of wildfires struck the entire southern half of California, and once again thousands of homes were either in flames or threatened by them, with ...

The Santa Barbara Independent republishes stories from CalMatters.org on state and local issues impacting readers in Santa Barbara County. Sterling Klippel is awed by the beauty of nature but spends ...