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Evacuations ordered as a powerful storm heads for California's wildfire burn scars, raising risk of mudslides – this is what cascading climate disasters look like

  • Written by Amir AghaKouchak, Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine
imageA firefighter checks homes after a mudslide that killed 23 people in Montecito, Calif., in 2018.Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Officials issuedevacuationorders for people living downhill from several of California’s wildfire burn scars on Oct. 24, 2021, as a powerful storm system known as an atmospheric river began to drench...

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