Morning Overview on MSN

Death Valley’s lake vanished 10,000 years ago and it’s back

In one of the hottest places on Earth, a vanished Ice Age lake has quietly returned to life. Where most visitors expect a ...

Ancient lake from ice age comes back to life in Death Valley after record rainfall

Between 128,000 and 186,000 years ago, when ice covered the Sierra Nevada, a lake 100 miles long and 600 feet deep sat in ...
Hit Points on MSN

10 incredible animals that thrive in America’s Death Valley National Park

Death Valley’s wildlife beats the odds in a place defined by extremes. The hottest, driest, and lowest landscape in the ...
The New York Times

120 Degrees and Still They Come: The Allure of Death Valley in the Summer

Roughly a quarter of the national park’s more than 1 million visitors go there in June, July and August, when temperatures soar. Why? Roughly a quarter of the national park’s more than 1 million ...
Las Vegas Review-Journal

Why Death Valley’s Native tribe dislikes the park’s name

It’s a menacing name, and not one that all who love it agree with. Saying Death Valley National Park out loud conjures up images of an environment as extreme as the reality: hot, dry and deadly desert ...
The New York Times

Does Clemson or LSU have the real Death Valley? It’s complicated

The real Death Valley is an actual Mojave Desert valley in eastern California, so named when prospectors perished there during the California Gold Rush of 1849. It has a case as the hottest place on ...