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 ...

The world-renowned Paranal Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert peers through what are ... ammonia and hydrogen production plants, and thousands of electricity generation units.

Workshops for guests include teaching about the region’s medicinal plants, local ceramics and ... "There is no place on earth quite like the Atacama desert,” explains Oliver Ripley, Our ...

A project expected to bring major changes to humanity's understanding of the universe, the Extremely Large Telescope with a main mirror nearly 40 meters across, is being assembled in Chile's Atacama ...

Some 3,800 years ago a massive 9.5-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami with waves as high as 20 metres (66 feet) slammed the coastline of Chile’s Atacama Desert, the world’s driest ...

In the study “Photovoltaic power resource at the Atacama Desert under climate change ... with dozens of large scale utility solar plants having come online there during the past decade ...