Tulare Lake, located in California’s San Joaquin Valley, was once one of the largest bodies of freshwater in the whole of the US. But, some 130 years ago it disappeared – thanks largely to the ...

Within a matter of a few months, this winter’s series of atmospheric river storms that drenched central California and the spring snowmelt from the southern Sierra Nevada range are fueling the ...

A coalition has begun an effort to bring back Tulare Lake and its once-vast wetlands on thousands of acres of farmland in the San Joaquin Valley.

A coalition has begun an effort to bring back Tulare Lake and its once-vast wetlands on thousands of acres of farmland in the San Joaquin Valley.

Tulare Lake was drained by farmers more than a century ago, and it has reappeared only rarely when floods have reclaimed farmlands in its ancient lake bed in the San Joaquin Valley.

The Tulare Lake basin has had the roughest time from the pooling of a body of water that last was seen in 1983. While the historic lake was large — the largest lake west of the Mississippi River — it ...

Tulare Lake, once erased for farming, surged back in 2023—flooding land, reviving tribal ties, wildlife, and warnings about climate and colonial legacies in California.

Why Tulare Lake is known as California’s ‘Ghost Lake’ Tulare Lake earned the nickname "ghost lake" because it vanished over a century ago after its water was diverted for farming.

Corcoran and Tulare Lake face up to 10 feet of ground sinking due to unchecked groundwater pumping by J.G. Boswell’s El Rico GSA in Kings County, California.

Corcoran and Tulare Lake face up to 10 feet of ground sinking due to unchecked groundwater pumping by J.G. Boswell’s El Rico GSA in Kings County, California.

Corcoran and Tulare Lake face up to 10 feet of ground sinking due to unchecked groundwater pumping by J.G. Boswell’s El Rico GSA in Kings County, California.