LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Catastrophic wildfires are a fact of life in California -- and disastrous flooding could be next. According to a newly released study, climate change has already doubled the ...

Devastating wildfires and droughts are not the only natural catastrophes that California will continue to face. According to new research published on Friday, a disastrous megaflood could bring so ...

Many Californians fear the "Big One," but it might not be what you think. It's not an earthquake. And it isn't the mega drought. It's actually the exact opposite. A megaflood. A new study by Science ...

At a time of record heat and a severe drought it may seem strange to hear a report that says that flooding is California's biggest threat in the future. A study by Sciences Advances says that climate ...

Even today, as California struggles with severe drought, global warming has doubled the likelihood that weather conditions will unleash a deluge as devastating as the Great Flood of 1862, according to ...

Thousands of years ago, an ice dam holding back a vast glacial lake suddenly collapsed — unleashing a torrent of water that ...

Researchers have uncovered strong new evidence that a colossal "megaflood" replenished the Mediterranean Sea around 5 million ...

Six million years ago the Mediterranean Sea was a very different place than it is today. Plate tectonics had closed the Strait of Gibraltar separating modern-day Spain and Morocco, leaving the ...

Imagine the entire Mediterranean Sea disappeared, leaving behind an empty, sun-baked salt plain stretching from Spain to the Middle East. Then imagine the Atlantic Ocean suddenly crashing through a ...