With its vivid turquoise, green and blue waters, it’s no surprise Lake Salda is often promoted as the “Maldives of Turkey.” According to scientists, it’s also the only place on Earth that’s analogous to the Jezero Crater on Mars.

California’s snowpack is now 85% of average, with more snow in the northern Sierra and less in the south. Amid warming winters, the state is seeing less snow at lower elevations.

A former Olympic snowboarder from Canada, charged in a drug-trafficking operation for allegedly shipping hundreds of kilograms of cocaine and fentanyl through Southern California to elsewhere in the U.