Human-caused climate change increased the likelihood and intensity of the hot, dry and windy conditions that fanned the flames of the recent devastating Southern California

The fires, likely to be the costliest in world history, were made about 35% more likely due to the 1.3°C of global warming that has occurred since preindustrial times.

Climate change helped to set the stage for the devastating Los Angeles fires this month, a new study by 32 researchers shows. The Palisades and Eaton wildfires broke out in early January and soon killed at least 28 people,

California water regulators have said there's no truth to President Donald Trump's claim that the U_S_ military entered the state and "turned on the water."

Donald Trump said the U.S. military entered California and opened a large flow of water to fight fires, but state officials denied those claims.

A fish-protection device on a pumping plant in California's Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. | Rich Pedroncelli/AP The Department of Government Efficiency paid California’s water-delivery infrastructure a visit on Monday following President Donald Trump’s withering criticism of the system.