EditorialA dog runs through dried lakebed at Lake McClure, formed behind the New Exchequer Dam, in Mariposa County, Calif., July 30, 2022. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)
EditorialIn a photo from NASA, scientists simulate a Perseverance rover mission in the dry lakebed of Walker Lake in Nevada in February 2020. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via The New York Times)