Lake Manly hasn’t been a permanent fixture in Death Valley since the Ice Age, but recently, it has reappeared. Record rainfall at the California site has allowed enough water to collect in the ancient ...

Death Valley, part of the Mojave Desert stretching across California and Nevada, is known for its extreme weather – but in recent weeks, it has broken records for rain rather than high temperatures.

In one of the hottest places on Earth, a vanished Ice Age lake has quietly returned to life. Where most visitors expect a blinding white salt pan, they are now finding open water stretching across the ...