This phenomenon, sometimes called a “desert bloom,” is filling sections of the Atacama with bright flowers. The Atacama Desert stretches along the coast of northern Chile, encompassing over ...

Arica, a port city in northern Chile, is part of the Atacama Desert, the driest non-polar desert in the world. According to Geographical.co.uk, Arica gets only around 0.76 mm of rainfall per year ...

New documentary inspired by Professor Chris Benner's co-authored book “Charging Forward” explores environmental justice across Argentina, Chile, and California.

All-inclusive, eco-friendly, desert hotel, Tierra Atacama, reopens on April 1st 2025 after undergoing a year-long, $20 ...

A brilliant comet lights up the night sky over Chile's Atacama Desert in this stunning image captured by a photographer with the European Southern Observatory in January 2025. What you're seeing ...

Chile’s Atacama Desert is a destination I only learned about in a passing conversation with strangers at a Sao Paulo airport last year. Aptly dubbed “the driest place on Earth,” it’s a ...

The Atacama’s dark skies and other qualities lured organizations to build cutting-edge instruments such as the VLT, the ELT and the southern array of the CTAO. “The darker the sky, the fainter ...

Chile's Indigenous communities in the lithium-rich Atacama Desert are in talks with two of the nation's biggest miners to ...