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

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 over the last year.

During the winter, extreme rainfall resurrected an ancient lake that is now disappearing once again.

Together, these extremes have created bizarre juxtapositions in the famed desert.

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