Once a stretch of fertile farmland, the area is now underwater. In a surprising turn of events, Tulare Lake– a natural lake that disappeared more than a century ago– has reappeared in ...

Tulare Lake, once a vast freshwater body in California, has reappeared after 130 years due to heavy snowmelt, highlighting historical water management practices and impacting the San Joaquin Valley.

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.

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 ...

The state Department of Fish and Wildlife and UC Davis's Oiled Wildlife Care Network (OWCN) coordinated an effort to treat birds who ingested a botulism-causing bacteria at Tulare Lake. What birds ...

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife reported that avian botulism was detected in a mallard duck and a white-faced ibis, both collected at Tulare Lake in the southern Central Valley.

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 ...

Once 120,000 acres, roughly the size of Lake Tahoe, Tulare Lake had receded to 61,000 acres as of early August, Ferrier said. At its highest, the lake’s depth averaged between 5 and 7 feet.

Hutson said he witnessed the flooding of Tulare Lake in 1983 and 1997. This time around, he noticed one key difference: the flooding of Highway 43 along the southern San Joaquin Valley. "You saw ...

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.