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Tall flowers, dead shrubs, ephemeral lake: Death Valley has become a picture of climate whiplash

In World
April 20, 2024

In California’s boom-and-bust climate, Death Valley has offered some of the strangest scenes over the past few years. Some of the area’s perennial creosote bushes died back during a severe drought that hampered the region through 2022. Then torrential downpours — from the remnants of Hurricane Hilary and subsequent storms — revived annual wildflowers from seed […]