This hot desert area has not seen rain in five centuries and it’s so dry it’s gained a reputation for its record-breaking ...

One might assume that marine fossils are exclusively unearthed in sedimentary coastal or underwater deposits. This is far ...

Most Atacama tourists are drawn to the ... Antarctica prevents rain clouds from forming on the coast. But there has always been life in the desert. Thousands of years ago, indigenous groups ...

The presence of quadbikes, 4X4s, and all-terrain motorcycles has destroyed a collection of huge artworks that were carved ...

Some 3,800 years ago a massive 9.5-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami with waves as high as 20 metres (66 feet) slammed the coastline of Chile’s Atacama Desert, the world’s driest ...

The penguins are able to survive in the Atacama Desert thanks to the Humboldt current, as it cools ... [+] these coastal waters by several degrees compared to other ocean waters at the same latitude.

Work Progresses on Giant Telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert By Rodrigo Gutierrez CERRO ARMAZONES, Chile (Reuters) - Dozens of boxes holding mirrors are placed along a remote desert hill in ...

Far from being barren wastelands, deserts are biologically rich habitats with a vast array of animals and plants that have adapted to the harsh conditions there. Some deserts are among the planet ...

on the Paranal Hill in the Atacama Desert, 130 kilometers south of Antofagasta and 12 km from the Pacific Ocean Coast. The Nobel Prize in Physics in 2020 was awarded for research on the ...

It stretched north to south some 2,500 miles along the high mountainous Andean range from Colombia to Chile and reached west to east from the dry coastal desert called Atacama to the steamy ...