With rising temperatures, the atmosphere can hold more moisture, meaning precipitation has a tendency to fall at more extreme levels.

© Austin Anthony for The New York Times

With rising temperatures, the atmosphere can hold more moisture, meaning precipitation has a tendency to fall at more extreme levels.

© Austin Anthony for The New York Times

An intense storm could cause flooding and debris flows in areas burned by wildfires. Some residents have begun to evacuate.

Donations on the crowdfunding site to people and fire relief efforts have exceeded those for all natural disasters worldwide last year.

Many fire victims are eager to clear their home sites and move on to rebuilding. The big question is when.

Officials across the Los Angeles area had plenty of warning that a deadly confluence of wind and drought was coming. A bad fire was likely. Did they do enough to get ready?

Ms. Bass, a longtime state and federal lawmaker, was seen as a pragmatic leader before the fires. But many Los Angeles residents are looking for something bolder at the moment.

President Trump’s decision to pull out of the international health agency could deprive the United States of crucial scientific data and lessen the country’s influence in setting a global health agenda.

While he has expressed support for North Carolina residents, the president has criticized California’s Democratic leaders and threatened to withhold federal aid from the state.

“I’d rather see the states take care of their own problems,” the president said. Federal emergency managers from both parties have made the same argument.

From national security to home insurance, the president has quickly changed America’s climate adaptation policies in important ways.

Public health experts say U.S. withdrawal from the W.H.O. would undermine the nation’s standing as a global health leader and make it harder to fight the next pandemic.

The Tubbs fire in 2017 wiped out more than 5,000 structures in a Northern California county. Homeowners faced challenges, but hundreds were able to rebuild within two years.

Our policies encourage Americans to flock to areas particularly prone to climate-related disasters.

The ongoing disaster will affect residents’ health, local industries, public budgets and the cost of housing for years to come.

Los Angeles seemed like paradise. Who could have imagined where it would lead?

Can a city lose an entire neighborhood now and simply shuffle on, dragging the local memory like a ghost limb?

Extreme weather events — deadly heat waves, floods, fires and hurricanes — are the consequences of a warming planet, scientists say.

A winter storm was sweeping across a wide swath of the South on Friday. Atlanta’s airport issued a ground stop after a plane was evacuated onto a snowy runway.

All highways in northeastern Kansas were closed on Sunday evening, bringing traffic to a standstill in some parts.