Death Valley Temperature Record Is Restored

Saturday, December 29, 2012 - 00:10 in Earth & Climate

Death Valley is officially the hottest place on earth, now that meteorologists have invalidated a 136.4-degree reading claimed since 1922 by a city in Libya.

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