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Death Valley may be America's hottest national park, but it's also very cool.

When one of the world's hottest places reaches this threshold, it grabs the attention of meteorologists and visitors, alike.

Heavy rains spurred by climate change earlier resurrected a prehistoric lake in Death Valley. Now the area is covered by colorful blooms.

Death Valley National Park could break its own record for the world's hottest place as a heat wave sweeps through California.

A small panel managed to extract a glassful of clean water from the bone-dry air of Death Valley in California, which ...

‘I’ve never seen anything like this’: Death Valley gleams with water, wildflowers and color German visitors Klaus Meyer and Leo Fischer at Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes, Death Valley National Park.

Death Valley averages about 2 inches of rain per year, but this year, the valley floor received 4.9 inches of rain in the past six months alone, according to park officials.

How did Death Valley get its name? Not from the heat In December 1849, a group of settlers seeking their fortunes stumbled upon this inhospitable valley. The few who made it out alive assigned the ...

In 1957, after tribe members had left the valley floor for the summer, the park staff called in fire trucks, and ordered them to turn their hoses on the tribe’s adobe buildings.