Chile News » Atacama News Chile » Atacama » People: How people in Chile's Atacama Desert evolved to survive drinking arsenic-poisoned water
For most of human history, a water source containing high concentrations of arsenic would have been considered deadly. Long-term exposure to the toxic metal is linked to cancers, cardiovascular ...
News Chile » Atacama » People: Exclusive-As Chile revs up lithium plans, Indigenous people demand more control
SALAR DE ATACAMA, Chile (Reuters) - Chile's Indigenous communities in the lithium-rich Atacama Desert are in talks with two of the nation's biggest miners to gain more influence over plans to increase ...
News Chile » Atacama » People: A trip through Chile's Atacama desert, the driest place in the world
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...
News Chile » Atacama » People: Atacama Desert: One of the driest places on earth is about to burst into bloom with millions of flowers
The Atacama Desert, one of the driest places on Earth, is set to burst into bloom with millions of flowers after unusually heavy rainfall in 2026.
News Chile » Atacama » People: How one community in Chile is blessed and cursed with lithium
ATACAMA DESERT, Chile — At the top of a craggy path in Socaire, a hilltop village deep in Chile's Atacama Desert, a black flag whips in the wind above Jeanette Cruz's house. The desert sun has ...
News Chile » Atacama » People: How people in Chile's Atacama Desert evolved to survive drinking arsenic-poisoned water
The Atacama Desert in northern Chile is often described as the driest non-polar desert on Earth, but it is also one of the most geologically unusual. To solve this long-standing mystery, researchers ...