Now, after 130 years, Tulare Lake is brimming with life again. "Nature taking revenge on humans", the overused cliche in environment reportage, seems befitting here as the lake has swallowed up over ...

A California "ghost lake" Tulare Lake that disappeared in the 17th century is making its grand return after 130 years, swallowing up 94,000 acres and counting of private farmland.

Lake San Antonio, a medium-size (350,000 acre-feet) water reservoir built in 1965 in Monterey County, Calif., is viewed as its level drops to less than 12% of capacity on June 22, 2021.

California's phantom Lake Tulare has now disappeared. Despite recent heavy rainfall across the state, the lake's water has receded and vanished once again, according to the San Francisco Chronicle ...

February 13, 2024 - By Jeff Jardine - In 1908, Col. Allen Allensworth came to Tulare County in the southern San Joaquin Valley to create a town where African Americans could self-govern and be ...

SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY, Calif. — After this year’s historic rains filled the San Joaquin Valley’s Tulare Basin for the first time in decades, migratory birds began flocking to the newly waterlogged ...

Wildlife authorities have detected avian botulism at California's resurgent Tulare Lake, raising concerns about potential die-offs during fall bird migrations. Testing confirmed the disease in a ...

California’s historic ‘Ghost Lake’ expands to almost same size as Lake Tahoe. Richard Suter. ... Tulare Lake has expanded over 180 square miles—nearly the same size as Lake Tahoe.

The lake now stretches about 111,000 acres, just a fraction of its historical size of nearly 512,000 acres (800 square miles), and it’s currently five to seven feet deep.

Tulare Lake, which refilled for the first time in 40 years after atmospheric river storms pummeled California , will take at least a year to evaporate entirely, experts said.