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One Big Danger At Death Valley National Park Is The Last Natural Disaster You'd Expect

Death Valley is a famously arid place, but that doesn't mean the U.S. national park doesn't still experience this surprising ...

Mojave Desert faces triple weather threat with flood risk, extreme heat and wildfires

Death Valley and the Mojave Desert face a triple threat of flash floods, extreme heat, and wildfire risk. Monsoonal storms combined with moisture from Hurricane Lorena are creating unstable weather ...
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Why Do These Rocks Slide by Themselves in the Death Valley

Deep in the California Desert lies a spot known as Death Valley. But unlike ghost towns, dinosaurs, and other fossils one can ...

In California’s Desert, Rocks Seem to Glide Across the Ground—A Mystery Few Believed Until Recently

Death Valley’s 'sailing stones' leave long tracks across the desert, creating one of the most puzzling and mesmerising natural sights in the American landscape., Travel, Times Now ...

In This Desert, Rocks Move on Their Own Across the Sand — No One Believed It at First

Discover the mystery of Death Valley’s “sailing stones,” where rocks seem to move across the desert floor unaided — a natural ...

Gizmodo Science Fair: A ‘Window’ That Harvests Drinking Water From Desert Air

Researchers developed an atmospheric water harvester so effective it was able to extract moisture from the air in Death ...
CNN

These devices harvest drinking water from the air in the planet’s driest places. Critics say they’re an expensive distraction

The arid desert landscape of Death Valley is not the obvious place to find water. Yet it’s here, in one of the planet’s hottest and driest places, that Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers ...
NBC Los Angeles

Searing heat draws visitors to California's Death Valley, where it's tough to communicate the risks

Ray Estrada's 11-year-old grandson is used to Las Vegas' scorching summers, but he'd always wanted to experience the heat in one of the Earth's hottest places. So Estrada recently drove him to Death ...
The New York Times

120 Degrees and Still They Come: The Allure of Death Valley in the Summer

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 ...
Daily Press

The grueling 135-mile journey of a 66-year-old runner through one of the hottest places on Earth

DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — When the running gets hard in this desert dubbed “hell on Earth,” Danny Westergaard tells himself: “Slow and steady” or “smooth as butter.” For 18 years, ...