Extreme heat warnings were in effect for parts of California, Arizona, and Nevada from the National Weather Service.

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The Colorado River basin has lost a Lake Mead’s worth of water in the last 20 years — and scientists say we’re passing a "critical point" where pumping groundwater will become too expensive.

Saying Death Valley National Park out loud conjures up images of an environment as ... William Lewis Manly — the namesake of Badwater Basin’s ephemeral lake — and John Rogers left the ...

Badwater Basin ... Credit: George Rose/Getty Images The state is also likely to see more very dry years and more multi-decade droughts. As a warmer atmosphere absorbs more moisture, soils dry ...

For those who don’t know much about this race, it starts at the Badwater Basin (below sea-level ... The solution to the extreme dry heat is cooling; runner’s crews are on call and every ...

French, Spanish, English, Swiss and US tourists left their air-conditioned rental cars and motorhomes to take photos of the barren ... riding through the Badwater Basin area in scorching weather.

The two visitors were part of a group of six motorcyclists riding through the Badwater Basin area amid scorching weather ... (Photo by ETIENNE LAURENT/AFP via Getty Images) Triple-digit temperatures ...

The new satellite images show dark blue water where depths reached 3 feet. NASA/JPL-Caltech That extra foot of water is significant because Badwater Basin is typically a cracked, bone-dry salt flat.

Badwater Basin can be found at the bottom of Death Valley. At 282 feet below sea level, it is the lowest elevation in North America and is normally a dry salt flat. Death Valley National Park ...

Images snapped by one of ESA's Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites on March 8 show the remnants of the fleeting lake in the middle of the enormous salt flat. Image of the Badwater Basin snapped by ...