On the other hand, every few years, an unusually rainy period can produce "super blooms," where even the Atacama becomes blanketed in wildflowers. Desert plants may have to go without fresh water ...

In the main square of Peine, a village of low houses and dirt streets in Chile’s northern Atacama Desert ... precisely because of the lack of water.” In 2017, the CPA convened environmental ...

The dark skies of Chile's Atacama Desert are perfect for skywatching ... Paranal Observatory. In new photos of this planet parade, the wispy glow of our own Milky Way galaxy is accompanied ...

The Atacama Desert in Chile is home to one of the ... extremely high altitude and lack of natural water required in the milling process, where the copper extracted from the ore is turned into ...