A once-mighty body of water is rising again in Central California. Tulare Lake was once the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River and was last full in 1878. It was mostly drained ...

Tulare Lake used to be the largest lake west of the Mississippi River. Farmers diverted the lake's water in the 1920s and replaced it with farmland. This year's rain and snowmelt have replenished ...

(KSEE/KGPE) – Images from NASA’s Earth Observatory show how the once-extinct Tulare Lake has come back to life thanks to the series of atmospheric rivers that started hitting California in ...

In Kings County, floodwaters are covering a large area of agricultural land in the Tulare Lake Basin. Photos captured by the NASA Earth Observatory between March 2 and April 1 show a huge increase ...

KINGS COUNTY, Calif. -- New satellite images from the NASA Earth Observatory show that Tulare Lake is still growing in Kings County. The pictures show the progression of the flooding between March ...

Tulare Lake as seen from an earth-orbiting satellite on Feb. 1, 2023, left, and on April 30, 2023, showing the increased flooding of the formerly dry lakebed from winter storms and spring snowmelt ...

But he still gazed at the lake in awe and pulled out his phone to take photos of the spectacle. For a few minutes, we both marveled at the sparkling Tulare Lake, seeming to stretch out before us ...

Tulare Lake was once the largest lake West of the Mississippi before farmers in the 1920s diverted the rivers that filled it to nourish crops. But after a winter of heavy rain and flooding in the ...