HEAVY RAINFALL. ONE OF THE HOTTEST AND DRIEST PLACES IN THE COUNTRY HAS AN UNEXPECTED VISITING ATTRACTION RIGHT NOW. THE BADWATER BASIN IN DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK IS USUALLY A DRY, SALT FLAT BOTTOM ...

It’s kayaking season in Death Valley. "The lake was deep enough to kayak for a few weeks after Hurricane Hilary, but unfortunately people couldn’t come enjoy it then," Death Valley National Park ...

My first sight of the lowest point in North America was from the top of a mountain. On the spine of the Black Mountains, Dante’s View looms over one of the strangest swaths of land in the country.

Wildflowers are spreading across one of the hottest, driest places on Earth. After a sequence of rare storms soaked Death Valley National Park over the past two years, the salt flats and alluvial fans ...

Storms pummeling Southern California have dramatically transformed Death Valley National Park, doubling the size of a vast temporary lake that is even visible to orbiting spacecraft. Although water ...

Tourists in Death Valley National Park have been enjoying a rare event: the opportunity to play in a lake in one of the driest places in the world. A temporary lake in Badwater Basin was replenished ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A strange new lake that only recently formed in Death Valley has been ...

The famously bone-dry salt flats at the bottom of Death Valley National Park in California aren't the first spot where most experienced kayakers would expect to paddle out. Most of the time, water ...

Death Valley’s temporary lake, fed by one powerful summer storm, is down to inches as it dwindles in the park’s Badwater Basin. But as it evaporates, other parts of the national park are reopening. In ...

California’s Death Valley is the hottest place in the world and the driest place in North America. But two months after Hurricane Hilary’s epic rainfall, parts of the national park look more oasis ...

Death Valley's Badwater Basin is full of water after an epic year of rain and snow in California - and wildflowers are blooming extraordinarily late in the season. Death Valley, the driest place in ...

Nevada, the "Silver State," is well-known for mining precious metals. But scientists Dennis Bazylinski and colleagues at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) do a different type of mining. They ...