experiences a rare phenomenon called the Atacama Desert Bloom. Despite minimal rainfall, the desert thrives on camanchaca, a coastal fog, and a vast underground wate … Read more ...

The Atacama Desert, located along Chile’s Pacific coast, is known as one of the driest places on Earth. In some parts of the desert, weather stations have reported no measurable rain for several ...

Rainfall that fell in the northern part of Chile and covered part of the Atacama Desert, combined with morning fog, activated vegetation that can remain dormant for up to 15 years. bloom of ...

Chileans and tourists from further afield come to view the unusually colourful desert After intense and unexpected rain fell in the north of Chile, parts of the usually arid Atacama desert have ...

Dr. Dirk Schulze-Makuch believes his research into extremophiles in the Atacama could help NASA re-assess its search for ...

Life on Mars may have been found — before it was accidentally destroyed during a NASA mission nearly 50 years ago, one ...

The Atacama Desert, Chile. The driest non-polar desert on earth. Average annual rainfall? Under a millimetre, with some regions waiting decades between sparse showers. The temperature swings from ...

But the historic rainfall has turned the Atacama Desert, which is the driest place on Earth, into a flowering oasis. "The Atacama region was punished, but also blessed by the phenomenon of a ...