Dry vegetation helped fuel the fires that spread through the Los Angeles area, burning tens of thousands of acres.

In early January, the soil moisture in much of Southern California was in the bottom 2% of historical records for that day in ...

Ming Pan, Western University, and Zahra Yamani, Laurentian University Technological progress owes much to our scientific understanding of the materials we use to build the world around us ...

Ming Pan, a hydrologist at the University of California-San Diego’s Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes, tracks the state’s water supplies. He put Southern California’s dryness ...