{"id":39733,"date":"2024-07-03T12:50:22","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T10:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bf5fe3e0-0285-4cdf-9f0b-3e4fe65d39e7"},"modified":"2024-07-03T13:28:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T11:28:45","slug":"whats-the-hottest-place-on-earth-and-wheres-the-biggest-desert","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/rss_feed\/whats-the-hottest-place-on-earth-and-wheres-the-biggest-desert\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s the hottest place on Earth? And where’s the biggest desert?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stuart Blackman takes a look at the hottest places on earth <\/p>

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Published: Wednesday, 03 July 2024 at 10:50 AM<\/p>

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The official record for the hottest place in the world, verified by the World Meteorological Organization, has stood since 1913, when a thermometer placed at a standard 1.5m off the ground in Furnace Creek in California\u2019s Death Valley, recorded an air temperature of 56.7\u00b0C. <\/strong><\/p>

Despite its hostile conditions this area is home to an array of wildlife including roadrunners, lizards like the chuckwalla, desert pupfish\u00a0and kangaroo rat – aptly named seeing it can jump nine feet.<\/p>

The ground can get hotter than the air, though. In 2005, a satellite measured a soil-surface temperature of 70.7\u00b0C in Iran\u2019s Lut Desert, 2,278,015 ha<\/strong> of arid landscape in the country’s southeast.<\/p>

But although its landscape looks inhospitable life does survive there. The Lut Plain is home to R\u00fcppell\u2019s fox, sand cat, arrow snake, Golden and Black Scorpion to name just a few.<\/p>

\u00a0The top temperature though goes to the tarred rooftops in New York, which have been recorded reaching a scorching 82\u00b0C. Probably not much wildlife living ton the rooftops though…<\/a><\/p>