When Chilean scientist Osvaldo Ulloa led an expedition 8,000 meters under the sea to an area where no human had ever been, his team discovered microscopic organisms that generated more questions than ...

The Chinchorro culture that inhabited Chile’s Atacama Desert from about 7,500 years ago is famous for its mummies, which ...

SAN PEDRO DE ATACAMA, Chile -The dusty main street through San Pedro de Atacama, a tiny town of adobe bricks and whitewashed plaster in Chile’s Atacama Desert, is a whirl of billowing linen shirts, ...

The Atacama desert in Chile sits long and lean, sandwiched between the Andes Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. The desert's extreme aridity makes it one of the clearest places on Earth to view the ...

CHANARAL, Chile, June 24 (Reuters) - In Chile's arid Atacama, the driest desert in the world, growers and researchers are looking to harness water from the very air itself to grow lettuces and lemons, ...

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 ...

Every afternoon, microorganisms fly into the Atacama Desert on grains of dust carried by the wind. The wind-driven dust could be how microbes first colonised the desert. If there are microbes alive on ...

Lines from tire tracks can be seen running through historic geoglyphs in the Atacama Desert. Atacama Desert Foundation Within the vast, sun-scorched sands of the Atacama Desert lie ancient ...

THIS spectacular snapshot of a landscape in the Salar de Atacama, a salt flat in northern Chile, was captured with a drone by photographer Olivier Grunewald. He has documented the journey of ...