Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...

Visitors normally flock to Death Valley National Park to feel the searing heat and take in the barren landscape. This fall, they’ve been drawn by a different natural feature: water. Visitors normally ...

Roughly a quarter of the national park’s more than 1 million visitors go there in June, July and August, when temperatures soar. Why? Roughly a quarter of the national park’s more than 1 million ...

FURNACE CREEK, Calif. — There’s an old story about two explorers on horseback riding into a wide basin. The men wonder aloud if a fire once charred these ancient peaks. If, in fact, this is an ...

FURNACE CREEK, Calif. — It was 10 p.m. and 116 degrees as a brutal wind whipped through the darkness. Here in Death Valley National Park — dubbed the hottest place on Earth — intrepid tourists waded ...

Spectacular craters, a giant valley and dunes illuminated with red and pink hues pepper the landscape. Extreme weather brings icy cold and dangerously hot temperatures. This foreign world is no place ...

We all loved Happy Valley, the BBC’s West Yorkshire-set, Sarah Lancashire-led crime drama with incredibly dark overtones (and if you loved Sally Wainwright’s writing, make sure you tune into her ...

Death Valley, Calif. — Long the hottest place on Earth, Death Valley put a sizzling exclamation point Sunday on a record warm summer that's baking nearly the entire globe by flirting with some of the ...

Death Valley doesn’t sound like a place anyone would want to visit. With summertime temperatures regularly soaring well into the triple digits, even in the shade, it can feel like an inferno. “But ...