But when Death Valley reopened this fall, visitors were greeted by a miraculous sight: a mirror-smooth body of water. It was the first time a lake had formed ... for The New York Times “The ...

as Death Valley is one of the hottest places on Earth and rarely sees much rainfall. A lake pops up only when the valley's Badwater Basin gains enough water to flood. This year the lake reached ...

The famously bone-dry salt flats at the bottom of Death Valley National ... rains and flooding, water has transformed the arid landscape into a thriving lake. And park-goers are finally taking ...

The puzzling arrival and surprisingly long life of a new lake in Death Valley National ... It isn't easy to get water into Death Valley, said Jeffrey Knott, an emeritus professor of geological ...

The last time the basin accumulated such a significant amount of water was nearly ... “It’s pretty rare to see a lake in Death Valley.” In addition to hosting a new lake, Badwater Basin ...

THE BADWATER BASIN IN DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK IS USUALLY A DRY, SALT FLAT BOTTOM. TAKE A LOOK HERE. BUT IT HAS ACTUALLY RECEIVED ENOUGH WATER TO FORM AN UNEXPECTED LAKE. IT BEGAN IN AUGUST ...

DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — If it weren’t for all the floating, the paddling, the sloshing around, the lake smack in the middle of this desert might be mistaken for a mirage.

Nevada and Arizona hit by potentially deadly heat wave, with temperatures in Furnace Creek in Death Valley expected to approach 120 degrees.

Lake Manly once stood at 700 feet deep during the Ice Ages. The remnants of an ancient lake are still visible in Death Valley National Park after an inundation of rain last year left a significant ...

The series of satellite images shows how the lake expanded from virtually no water on July 5 to being flooded with water from August through February. Death Valley is the driest place in North ...

Manly is an ancient pluvial lake in Death Valley National Park which only sometimes ... The group ogled the glassy expanse of water and the snowcapped mountains beyond, and then got to inflating ...

“It was amazing to see an entire lake migrate,” Mike Reynolds, superintendent of Death Valley National Park, said in a statement on Monday. “But now the water ... based in New York City.