Television and Radio

Tipping Point | The Hindu spoke to Chad Hanson, a California-based research ecologist from the John Muir Project, to understand the causes behind California wildfires, dispel the rumours, and discuss the way forward.

NewsNation | Forest and fire ecologist Chad Hanson joins Banfield to discuss how exactly a wildfire is contained. Palisades Fire is 14% contained as of Monday evening.

Al Arabiya News | The wildfire in Palisades is said to have burned 17,000 acres of land as the dangerous embers reached the Hollywood hills area late last night. Donald Trump has also used this opportunity to publicly criticize the governor of California, Gavin Newsom, blaming his leadership as a reason for the mishandling of the fire.

CNN | Dr. Chad Hanson points out the urgent need to create fire-safe communities in the midst of ongoing Southern California shrubland fires. He also mentions the lack of evidence that this event was exacerbated due to a lack of water – the fire hydrant infrastructure is not designed to address a situation where you have several hundred homes, simultaneously, engaged in flames.

CNN, Isa Soares Tonight | What we’re missing in the conversation right now is community protection, on creating fire safe communities; it will save thousands of homes and many lives – home hardening, defensible space, and evacuation planning & assistance.

Merit News | Dr. Chad Hanson talks with Merit News about the ongoing widespread SoCal fires, much-needed policy shift, and fire crew shortages.

Spectrum News 1 SoCal | Dr. Chad Hanson is back on Spectrum News talking about the multiple wildfires that have broke out across Los Angeles county. He reiterates, this is a community, not a wildlands issue.

Good Morning America | Wildfire scientist and fire ecologist Chad Hanson discusses the factors that led to the historic and devastating Southern California wildfires and how climate change played a role.

ABC News | Forest and fire ecologist discusses the factors that led to the historic and devastating SoCal wildfires and how climate change played a role.

EWTN News Nightly | Wildfire season in California typically runs from June to October, but we did see a wildfire in the Golden State in December and now these January wildfires.