Yosemite

One picture shows a walkway in the Sentinel Meadow area of the park completely underwater.

The Merced River is expected to stay at flood stage for days, as rising temperatures continue to melt the snowpack at a rapid rate.

Warming temperatures are causing a record snowpack to melt quickly in the National Park.

The California reservoir is now at its highest point since 2019 and is only 3 feet away from full capacity.

The previously dry Tulare Lake bed has rapidly flooded over the past few months due to heavy rainfall and snowmelt from the Sierra Nevada.

As snowpack in the Sierra Nevada starts to melt due to increasing temperatures, meltwater has been flowing rapidly into the California valleys.

The Merced River, which runs through Yosemite National Park, is bound to overflow following California's record snowfall.

With substantial storms predicted over the next 10 days, the snowpack could increase significantly, an expert told Newsweek.

The glacier could be gone by 2050, along with a multitude of others that are vital for water supply and UNESCO world heritage sites.

Anna Parsons, 21, survived a 78-foot fall on August 1, but has had to have one of her feet amputated. Her family are fundraising to help pay her medical bills.

With California in the grip of a climate change-triggered drought, trees are so dry that they are entirely burning in the Oak wildfire.

The Oak Fire has become the largest wildfire of the year in California and continues to approach Yosemite National Park.

Firefighters continue battling the Oak Fire near Yosemite National Park on Monday.

The Oak Fire has been spreading rapidly and has been deemed the biggest fire in California since the start of 2022.

The blaze currently covers an area of over 3,500 acres, and is 22 percent contained by firefighters

"The Washburn Fire entered Yosemite's Mariposa Grove, one of our nation's most treasured giant sequoia groves," a conservationist said.

The spectacular illusion, which makes the Horsetail Fall waterfall appear as if it is on fire, can be witnessed from mid to late February.

The 61-year-old from Reno, California, has an accomplished running and climbing career.

"Alice" Yu Xie, 41, has been missing since she went on a day hike to the Upper Yosemite Fall overlook. She is less than 5 feet tall, less than 100 pounds, and has neck-length black hair.

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Big Basin Redwoods State Park, California's oldest, totals 18,000 acres, all of which are "gone" after the CZU August Lightning Complex fire ripped through it this week.

On Thursday, the Yosemite National Park reported that 170 people had experienced a gastrointestinal illness, and two of them have been confirmed to be a norovirus.

The Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation has been petitioning for federal acknowledgement since 1982, but the Office of Federal Acknowledgement has repeatedly declined to recognize the group as a real tribe.

Park rangers recovered two bodies on Thursday.

The fire had reached 60 acres by Tuesday afternoon.

One firefighter has died, and another was injured Tuesday afternoon while working to contain the blaze.

The wildfire has spread to 9,266 acres.

Hundreds of firefighters are battling the blaze southwest of the national park.

UNESCO has identified 1092 sites worldwide for protection because of their cultural, historical or scientific value or other significance. Here are the ones in North America.

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