In the main square of Peine, a village of low houses and dirt streets in Chile’s northern Atacama Desert, there is barely any movement. It’s midday and the sun beats down from a cloudless sky. At this ...

Chile's Atacama desert is best known for its salt lagoons in the north, but head to the Mar de Dunas in the southern part and you will be rewarded with perfect wind-sculptured wave patterns as far as ...

The normally barren landscape of the Atacama region, the oldest continuously arid place in the world has been transformed this year, a gift from El Nino. Even though the cyclical warming of the El ...

Paleontologists in Chile have announced that they’ve discovered a new species of giant dinosaur. The name of the reptile is a mouthful — it’s called “Arackar licanantay.” The name means "Atacamian ...

FILE PHOTO: A view shows the area of an unusual winter bloom on Atacama desert prior to the spring phenomenon known as 'Desierto Florido' (Bloomed desert), which fills the driest desert in the world ...

Atacama Region, Chile (27.6°S 70.5°W), 09 Mar 2023 Atacama Region, Chile (27.6°S 70.5°W), 09 Mar 2023 The Atacama Desert is a desert plateau in South America covering a 1,600 km (990 mi) strip of land ...

This study reports a new species of Eryngium (Apiaceae, Saniculoideae) from the desert scrubs, in the south of the III Atacama Region, Chile. This new species is singular within the genus by its ...

Scientists have studied the driest regions of the Atacama Desert to understand whether life could exist on Mars ...

A palaeontologist works at the place where pterosaur fossils were found at 'Tormento' hill in the Atacama desert at Atacama region, Chile, in this undated handout photo provided by the Universidad de ...