Tone characteristics: Newly occurred landslides often appear in light tones such as grayish-white or bluish-white due to the destruction of surface vegetation and soil fragmentation. The tone ...

The image below shows a zoomed-in section of Wednesday’s satellite photo from the interactive slider. All of the non-red land in the center is burned vegetation in the foothills of the San Gabriels, ...

But no longer. Vegetation along the usually moist coast is often so parched that it doesn’t need winds to fan wildfires. Also, in the far north, California’s so-called “asbestos forests” have lost ...