As Los Angeles recovers from its devastating wildfires, environmental engineers, urban planners and natural disaster experts ...

The phrase “urban firestorm” has terrified me since I first heard it, from the climate scientist Daniel Swain, who was ...

Residents near Clinton, Missouri, are worried about potential contamination after recent tests found elevated levels of cancer-causing chemicals in an Evergy dump site.

Now harmful chemicals, which may include asbestos, lead, mercury and other heavy metals, are present in the ash that blankets ...

In the wake of the Palisades and Eaton fires, concerns about air quality across the county have been on the rise.

Evacuated residents are waiting in their cars for hours to get permission to return to Los Angeles neighborhoods devastated ...

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

While the recent rain has helped wildfire recovery efforts, ash is still an issue. There are a lot of unknowns with how ash ...

Rain has mostly moved out of Southern California after the first significant storm of the season brought weekend downpours that aided firefighters. Ash and mud flowed across streets, but no ...