CHANARAL, Chile (Reuters) -In Chile's arid Atacama, the driest desert in the world, growers and researchers are looking to harness water from the very air itself to grow lettuces and lemons, using a ...

Chile's Atacama Desert becomes a spectacle during the rainy season due to the different amount of flora species that are born gracing the large expanse of land of this magnificent site. Visitors ...

Benito Gómez-Silva is surrounded by nothing. For as far as the eye can see, no plants dot the landscape; no animals amble across the salt-crusted soil that stretches out to the base of distant ...

A low-cost device draws moisture from air in the driest place on Earth, the Atacama Desert in Chile (Device 2025, DOI: 10.1016/j.device.2025.100798). The device uses a water-absorbing hydrogel–salt ...

As the driest nonpolar desert in the world, the Atacama Desert in northern Chile is home to very few species of plants and animals. With rainfall often occurring only once a decade, the desert is so ...

A patchwork of crystal-clear lagoons and vast salt plains in Argentina's Puna de Atacama desert forms an otherworldly ecosystem unlike "anything any scientist has ever seen," researchers say. The ...