After thousands of homes were destroyed, many are looking for ways to make Los Angeles safer from wildfires. But clearing ...

Chaparral, Calif.’s fire-adapted ecosystem, often goes overlooked. That is, except for when the high severity firestorms blaze through human communities. Chaparral was quickly lambasted during ...

As deportations continue, a new federal shelter was set up in Tijuana to provide a safe space and support. It is one of nine ...

Large wildfires in the desert were once rare. Now experts worry that invasive plants and a changing fire cycle are putting our saguaros and our homes in danger.

Unlike the forests or the prairie, fires in the chaparral are infrequent and intensely hot. While the Native Americans in California deliberately set fires to shrubland, they were not trying to ...

The Chaparral high school girls soccer team, which has won five state titles since 2017, is seeking to get back to its championship ways.

The mountains and foothills of Los Angeles County are in “extreme drought” conditions, about 36% of the county, explained ...

In early January 2025, just a week after New Year, furious 80 mph Santa Ana winds swept through SoCal. The winds are natural, ...

Carlson, who was put into soccer at five years old by her father, Howard, attended the University of California at Berkeley after Chaparral, where she played club soccer. Following her time in ...

Human-caused climate change increased the intensity of the dry and windy conditions that fanned the flames of the recent devastating Southern California wildfires, a scientific study found.

a fire ecologist with the California Chaparral Institute in Escondido on Jan. 23. Ecosystems are used to this seesaw effect, he said and fire is part of the Mediterranean climate of Southern ...