Aria Bendix

Here's what medical experts think people should know about drinking and cancer risk, including the long-term damage of alcohol consumption and whether any amount is safe.

A patient in Louisiana has died of bird flu. Health authorities considered the case to be the first severe H5N1 infection in a U.S. resident.

Three tanks and some fire hydrants temporarily lost water because of high demand. Experts said the system wasn't built to fight a major blaze like this one.

The winds form annually as cold air travels from the Great Basin to Southern California. This year's gusts were particularly widespread.

Demand for water to fight the Palisades Fire led all three of the area's water tanks and some fire hydrants to temporarily dry up in the last roughly 24 hours.

The blazes are the result of a combination of suburban sprawl in fire-prone areas, fierce Santa Ana winds, dry conditions fueled by climate change and the limits of firefighting.

The Santa Ana winds become particularly dangerous when combined with other climate conditions such as drought, which increases the risk of wildfires like the ones currently raging in the Los Angeles area.

The president elect used the wildfires to revisit a water policy disagreement with Gov. Gavin Newsom. Experts say that the disagreement had nothing to do with the current disaster.

Rates of breast and thyroid cancer for women under 50 rose from 2002 to 2021, while men in the same age group had declining rates of melanoma and prostate cancer.

Reconstructing fire-ravaged neighborhoods in their former image could make residents sitting ducks for future blazes, experts say.