Giga-scale desert region solar plants may have positive climate impact The El Romero Solar plant in the Atacama Desert in Chile. Image: Acciona. Joshua S Hill. May 4, 2023. Facebook; ...

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 ...

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 ...