>>12512475Probably nematodes and other really small shit tolerant of low oxygen environments
>>12512484Actually death valley is an example of how having remarkably low elevation can lead to the development of a heat island and allow temperatures to skyrocket while humidity drops to almost zero.
Basically, death valley is really deep, deeper than sea level. This means that the air pressure at the bottom of the valley is higher. Since air cools as it expands, the fact that the air at the bottom of death valley is more compressed than at sea level means that the air temperature down there MUST be hotter than the surrounding higher elevation sea-level landscape, for temperatures to be equal. Otherwise, the air at sea level above death valley would be colder than the air surrounding the valley, which would cause it to sink and compress, pulling in warmer air from the surrounding area and mixing it with the air in the valley until the balance point was reached. Anyway, the result is that Death Valley is a fucking desert oven, and the ground is so hot and dry that enough heat gets trapped that it forms a lens of warmer air at sea level that prevents any of the surrounding more moist air from entering the place.
As an aside, it would have been really funny if that insane megaproject idea of damming the strait of Gibraltar and allowing a good portion of the Mediterranean to evaporate actually happened, because all that land that they thought they'd get out of it would end up like a worse Death Valley environment, with hotter temperatures, drier conditions, and saltier soil.
