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Death Valley National Park Designated as Largest International Dark Sky Park

Death Valley National Park, the lowest point in North America, is reaching to new heights as today the International Dark-Sky Association announces its designation as the world's newest and largest "Gold Tier" International Dark Sky Park.
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Death Valley in US now world's hottest place 

California's Death Valley has been recognised as world's hottest place after meteorologists disqualified a Libyan city's 90-year old record citing "error in recording the temperature". 
A World Meteorological Organization panel conducted an in-depth investigation during 2010-11 of the long-held world-record temperature extreme of 58ºC (136.4 ºF) by El Azizia, approximately 40 kilometres south-southwest of Tripoli, on September 13, 1922. 
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Death Valley is the hottest and driest place in North America because of its lack of surface water and its low relief. 
On July 10, 1913, a record 134 °F (56.7 °C) was measured at the Weather Bureau's observation station at Greenland Ranch (now the site for the Furnace Creek Inn), the highest temperature ever recorded on that continent as of 2007 
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