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Shimmering bodies of water have appeared in the dunes of the recently reopened national park after a summer deluge

Follow live as Tropical Storm Harold tracks towards southern Texas

Hiker dies as US national park exceeds 50C, while heatwave in southern Europe is expected to ease

A Southern California outdoor enthusiast has died after collapsing in Death Valley following a hike amid blistering heat

Temperatures around the world are soaring. Both California’s Death Valley and China’s Xinjiang region have seen temperatures climb above the 50℃ mark. A blistering heatwave is also sweeping across the Mediterranean, causing temperatures in parts of Italy, Spain, France and Greece to exceed 40℃.

High temperature ‘may have been a factor’ in death of 71-year-old Steve Curry in Golden Canyon area, park officials say

It was 10 p.m. and 116 degrees as a brutal wind whipped through the darkness.

An unfathomable heat descended here on Monday, the hottest place in a rapidly warming world. At the Furnace Creek Visitor Center, a digital thermometer read 123 degrees and counting — within striking distance of the hottest temperature ever recorded on planet Earth.

US west coast experiencing sweltering temperatures with Death Valley approaching a record