Commentary: Wildfires come with the wildness that draws us to Los Angeles
The mix of urban settings and nature is what we love about this region. This past week we're reminded just how untamed the ...
Soap Central on MSN48m
Who created the Getty Center? How Brentwood’s iconic building design protects it against wildfires
Getty Center was among the endangered landmarks in Los Angeles that faced the threat of the devastating wildfire.
Wildfire evacuations expand to Getty Center, one of Los Angeles' leading museums
The evacuation warning comes just days after the museum's other campus, the Getty Villa, was in the line of fire.
New York Magazine3h
Firefighters Making Progress Against L.A. Fires: Updates
Fire crews are continuing to make real progress against the L.A. fires. Thanks to more favorable weather conditions, a ...
How Climate Change Has Fueled L.A.’s Devastating Wildfires: ‘We Have Unleashed Forces Beyond Our Control’
Climate change didn’t start the wildfires that are ravaging Los Angeles County this week. But the big swings in weather ...
This Is Why We Can’t Log Our Way Out of Wildfires
Trying to prevent forest fires with more logging may only make them worse, fire ecologists say. Will the federal government ...
Los Angeles Getty Center’s priceless collection braces for wildfires as evacuation order expands to museum
The Brentwood Getty Center was put under an evacuation order on Friday, while The villa, located in the Pacific Palisades, ...
No 'water system in the world' could have handled the LA fires. How the region could have minimized the damage
By Majlie de Puy Kamp, Curt Devine, Casey Tolan, Blake Ellis, Melanie Hicken, Rob Kuznia, Scott Glover, Yahya Abou-Ghazala, ...
The Express Tribune11h
Whispers across time
The cycles of time, the endless loop of beginnings and endings, reminded me of Nietzsche’s eternal recurrence, the whirling ...
John O'Groat Journal and Caithness Courier10h
An industrial wasteland, an unacceptable threat, a dead zone: Banniskirk Hub objectors have their say
The massive Banniskirk Hub substation is “completely unacceptable in a rural location” and “should be rejected out of hand”, ...
Braced with defenses against fire, Getty art center faces LA flames
Nestled in the mountains above Los Angeles, the famed art museum is within a new evacuation warning zone as the Palisades ...
'Entirely foreseeable': The L.A. fires are the worst-case scenario experts feared
The blazes are the result of a combination of suburban sprawl in fire-prone areas, fierce Santa Ana winds, dry conditions ...