This is not a forest. You can't just rake the leaves. It's a shrubland that used to be a lot more grassland when it was burned by the original Indigenous people and grazed during the ranching era. With climate change, increasing drought that intersects with Santa Ana winds is the recipe for fire.

Day 5: U.S. officials tell COP29 that climate progress in the states will continue throughout the Trump presidency, no matter what happens on the federal level abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

Day 4: A new report came out showing that solving the climate crisis could cost trillions abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

Day 3 at COP29 shows how hard it will be for the world to quit fossil fuels abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

Day 2: World leaders send mixed messages about the climate crisis abcnews.go.com/Internationa...