There are few national parks as extreme as Death Valley National Park, which straddles the border of California and Nevada. The saltwater flats of Badwater Basin sit well below sea level and face ...

DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. - In a desert called the driest place in North America, who would guess a rainbow colors the sky. After a light rain, however, the brilliant rainbow appears before ...

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 ...