Welcome to Boiling Point. I’m Melody Petersen, a reporter on The Times’ climate team, writing the newsletter this week to fill in for my colleague Sammy Roth. California’s Death Valley is famous for ...

DEATH VALLEY, Calif. — The temperature had just crept past 125 degrees, and Stephen Peterson was staring absently at a family cooling off in the Stovepipe Wells hotel swimming pool. “It can make you ...

DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — Ray Estrada’s 11-year-old grandson is used to Las Vegas’ scorching summers, but he’d always wanted to experience the heat in one of the Earth’s hottest places. So ...

A small panel managed to extract a glassful of clean water from the bone-dry air of Death Valley in California, which suggests that the device could provide the vital resource to arid regions. The ...

Death Valley, one of the driest and hottest places on Earth, is making headlines for an unexpected reason: water. After a record-breaking November rainfall, a shallow lake has reappeared in Badwater ...

Lake Manly appears for first time in nearly two years following 1.76 inches of November precipitation at North America's lowest point DEATH VALLEY (KTNV) — For the first time in nearly two years, the ...

An ancient lake that thrived during the last Ice Age has reemerged in California's Death Valley National Park, after a record spell of rainfall hit the area, the National Park Service said. Informally ...

When I was four years old, I learned to “breathe underwater” — not by scuba diving in a tropical ocean, but in a sink, my father’s stiff hands forcing me beneath the surface. I can still feel the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A man hikes onto the Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes in Death Valley National Park, where temperatures have regularly risen as high as ...