Inside this red circle lies the world’s driest non-polar desert, a place where rain is so scarce it may not fall for years or ...

Starting in 2015 it has rained several times in the Atacama D: The desert must have bloomed with life. Y: That’s what scientists thought might happen. But it didn’t. Actually, the rain killed ...

The Atacama Desert is known as the Desierto Florido (the “flowering desert”) because every few years it’s blanketed with flowers, when the right levels of rainfall and temperature coincide ...

When it comes to my in-shower process, I'm usually a two-step kind of girl. I like to lather up with bar soap before moving ...

The Atacama Desert in northern Chile is one of the driest ... Seeds that lie dormant in the desert sand awaken to life when there is rain and the appropriate temperature. Usually, this happens ...

These and other chemicals (nitrogen, sulfur) were transported westward into the future Atacama Desert basin by groundwater. Chile's climate was warmer and wetter then. Between 20 million and 10 ...

Mean annual precipitation in its hyperarid core ... Anthony Cotsifas San Pedro de Atacama, the desert’s tourist hub, is an isolated hot spot of human hustle. Every evening I was there, a wind ...

Pablo Guerrero has been visiting cacti in the Atacama Desert his whole life, first on family trips to the Chilean coast and later as a researcher studying the impacts of climate change and illegal ...

The Atacama Desert is the driest place on the planet ... It doesn’t get a full centimeter of rain in a typical year, and sometimes there is no rain at all. Little delicate flowers grow in ...