The Atacama Desert is the driest desert in the world (if you don’t include polar deserts). When the conditions are just right ...

The Atacama Desert in Northern Chile has been a bit of a secret destination for those who love stargazing and other-worldly hiking terrains. It is home to ALMA, the world’s largest radio telescope and ...

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When snow shut down one of Earth’s most advanced telescopes high in Chile’s Atacama Desert, the surprise was not just that ...

Northern Chile’s Atacama Desert is the driest and, it’s been argued, oldest desert in the world – characteristics that might lead travelers to believe it’s an arid, windswept wasteland with little or ...

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 ...

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The newly reopened Tierra Atacama has rooms with indoor-outdoor showers, soaking tubs, and underfloor heating, plus fireplaces and plunge pools in the suites, and gorgeous views of the Licancabur ...

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Chile’s Codelco and SQM completed a landmark deal aimed at boosting lithium extraction from the country’s Atacama Desert, giving the government control of one of the world’s richest reserves of the ...