Chile's Atacama desert is best known for its salt lagoons in the north, but head to the Mar de Dunas in the southern part and you will be rewarded with perfect wind-sculptured wave patterns as far as ...
No one wants to be that guy waxing on about how beautiful the sunset was on vacation—but what if it was a double sunset? One that seemed to wash the world in pinks and purples, turning an imposing ...
When Eduardo Unda-Sanzana arrived in Chile’s Atacama Desert to teach astronomy, the darkness was disorienting. The remote location of the small observatory at Catholic University of the North made it ...
ATACAMA, Chile (Reuters) -In Chile's arid Atacama, the driest desert in the world, scientists are studying a small, resilient flower that could hold genetic clues to help crops withstand worsening ...
SAN PEDRO DE ATACAMA, Chile (AP) -- Here in one of the driest deserts on earth, it's not the sun, dehydration, altitude or arsenic-contaminated drinking water that are likely to get you, but the tour ...
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 ...
SAN PEDRO DE ATACAMA, Chile — A solitary grave sits near the top of the 10,000-foot pass, a simple monument with a yawning view of the bleached and scarred valley so loved by British geologist Sydney ...
This article originally appeared on Undark. Growing up in Chile’s Atacama Desert, Paulina Villalobos thought the Milky Way’s presence in the pristine starry skies was a given. Her father, an amateur ...
A palaeontologist works at the place where pterosaur fossils were found at 'Tormento' hill in the Atacama desert at Atacama region, Chile, in this undated handout photo provided by the Universidad de ...