The total area burned in the recent Los Angeles fires is comparable to that of the primary destruction zone of a strategic ...

Apocalypse as a happy ending? Only in Los Angeles. It's an idea that's epicentral to the identity of the place.

The city burning is Los Angeles’s deepest image of itself.” The weather here, she continues, “is the weather of catastrophe, of apocalypse.” Didion and Butler are just two of the many ...

Time Magazine served up another contribution to the cratering of confidence in the media, claiming climate change impacts the NFL.

Here is where I am legally required to quote Joan Didion who in Slouching Toward Bethlehem famously wrote: 'Los Angeles weather is the weather of catastrophe, of apocalypse, and just as reliably ...

It's Oscar season, a perfect occasion to look at why the Academy Awards gets things wrong so often. Bob Mondello, who jokes that he was a jinx at the beginning of his critical career — hired to write ...

The rapid meltdown of polar ice could shut down a key ocean current by 2050, triggering catastrophic surges of sea level rise along the U.S. East Coast and dangerous climate shifts in northwestern ...

When it comes to disaster preparedness, Santa Cruz County is employing not only a recently established Office of Response, ...

As blazes engulfed Los Angeles last week ... and you’re going to be grateful for this rain,’” she said, adding that now she’d “take seven days straight of pouring rain over this any ...

"Los Angeles weather is the weather of catastrophe, of apocalypse," Joan Didion, a native California writer, said in her 1968 book of essays, Slouching Toward Bethlehem. "(T)he violence and the ...