The Atacama Desert, which runs along the Pacific Coast in Chile, is the driest place on the planet and, largely because of ...

In a remarkable discovery, researchers have found evidence of living microbes thriving in one of the most inhospitable ...

The Atacama Desert in Chile is a wonder in itself. It is the only true desert to receive less precipitation than polar deserts, making it the driest non-polar desert in the world and the second ...

"There is no place on earth quite like the Atacama desert,” explains Oliver Ripley, Our Habitas Co-Founder and CEO. “It's an incredibly serene and humbling place, which is a draw for those ...

The dry, desolate landscape of the Atacama Desert has been used by American space agency Nasa to replicate conditions on Mars Sign up for notifications to the latest Insight features via the BBC ...

The Atacama Desert in Chile is a harsh environment. Yet, once upon a time, humans were traipsing across the landscape committing enormous drawings to the earth – drawings that would endure for ...

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 ...

ON A MAY MORNING two pickup trucks passed through the quiet town of San Pedro in Chile’s Atacama Desert and headed up a mountainside on a dirt road. It was 1994, and the five men inside the ...

Researchers in Spain have investigated how climate change may possibly impact solar power generation in the world’s region with the highest solar radiation levels – the Atacama desert in ...