Herbaceous plants — like those flowering in the Atacama Desert — have a self-pollination mechanism that activates if a pollinator does not arrive in a given year. But this backup occurs late ...

Discover why Antarctica no longer has lush forests with giant ferns and how ancient fires fueled intense volcanic activity.

The Atacama Desert in Chile is the driest place on Earth outside of the North and South Poles. Yet it’s teeming with plant life that has evolved to cope with limited water and nutrients, a high ...

What’s the first image that comes to mind when you think about nature,” asks Aurora Radich, a nature therapist in northern ...

The driest deserts, such as Chile's Atacama Desert, have parts that receive less than .08 inches (2 mm) of precipitation a year. ... Many desert plants can live for hundreds of years.

Effects of trade and poaching pressure on extinction risk for cacti in the Atacama Desert. Conservation Biology . Vol. 38, October 2024, e14353. doi: 10.1111/cobi.14353.

Chile's Atacama Desert is being threatened by piles of trash dumped there from around the world, which is also damaging scientific research. This area is key to helping find life on other planets.

Of water, of life. Whatever is determined enough to exist there — people, plants, animals, even ... What a road trip through Chile’s Atacama Desert — one of the world’s driest places ...

The town of San Pedro de Atacama is a convenient staging ground for outdoor treks and other adventures. Visiting the Atacama Desert: The driest spot on Earth - Los Angeles Times ...

The cacti are now in an Atacama Desert greenhouse managed by the National Forest Corporation of Chile (Conaf), although some local reports suggest some of the plants may have gone missing.

Studying the effects of once-in-a-century rainfall in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert in Chile, a team of astrobiologists found that instead of causing a bloom of growth, the unexpected ...