CHANARAL, Chile (Reuters) -In Chile's arid Atacama, the driest desert in the world, growers and researchers are looking to ...

Residents of the world's driest desert, the Atacama in northern Chile, woke up Thursday to a jaw-dropping spectacle: its ...

An international research team studied the solar PV impact of emissions from a coal-fired power plant in the Atacama Desert, finding that after five months of exposure, the deposited dust on co ...

San Pedro de Atacama, the desert’s tourist hub, is an isolated hot spot of human hustle. Every evening I was there, a wind kicked up before sunset and dropped off as soon as darkness fell.

From the American Southwest to South Africa, desert plants have been targets of plant poaching. Even the remote Atacama wasn’t safe. How, Guerrero wondered, was poaching affecting the desert’s ...

The Atacama Desert stretches across Chile in a staggering diversity of discrete landscapes. While it can be a challenging place to call home, it is a playground of adventure for intrepid visitors.

From a distance, the Ivanpah solar plant looks like a shimmering lake in the Mojave Desert. Up close, it’s a vast alien-like installation of hundreds of thousand of mirrors pointed at three ...

The 221 Megawatt peak (MWp) photovoltaic solar plant, with a 1.2 Gigawatt hour (GWh) battery storage system is capable of delivering 200 MW for 6.2 hours after sunset, ContourGlobal said in a ...

The Atacama Desert in Chile is a harsh environment. Yet, once upon a time, humans were traipsing across the landscape committing enormous drawings to the earth – drawings that would endure for ...

Forget Arizona or Florida — sun worshippers ought to head to the Atacama Desert in South America. It’s there that the sun’s rays on Earth are most intense, beating out places like Mount ...

Seeing such conditions on an 1850s expedition to the Atacama at the behest of the Chilean government, even German-Chilean naturalist Rodulfo Philippi, who first documented many of the plants and ...