Wildflowers are blooming in the Atacama Desert, an inhospitable stretch of land west of the Andes Mountains that normally gets just 2 millimeters of rain every year. But this July and August, a rare ...

Imagine a landscape so barren it resembles Mars itself, where some weather stations have never recorded a single drop of rain in their entire operational history. This isn't science fiction – it's the ...

There’s a reason why some of most powerful observatories on Earth can be found in the Atacama Desert in Northern Chile. The altitude, seclusion from luminescent cities and unique accolade of being the ...

Researchers in Chile are launching a project to combat water scarcity in the Atacama Desert by setting up fog collectors in ...

When we say a place is “driest,” we generally mean it receives very little precipitation (rain or snow), often much less than ...

The Atacama Desert, recognised as one of the driest and oldest deserts on Earth, offers a unique natural laboratory for the study of extreme hydrological and geological processes. Its remarkably ...

An early grid battery was installed in the Atacama Desert in Chile 15 years ago. Now, as prices have tumbled, they are ...