Chile News » Atacama News Chile » Atacama » Politics: Chile’s lithium boom promises jobs and money — but threatens a critical water source
This story is part of the Grist series Unearthed: The Mining Issue, which examines the global race to extract critical minerals for the clean energy transition. It was produced by Grist and ...
News Chile » Atacama » Politics: The Most Martian Desert On Earth: The Atacama Desert In Northern Chile
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Brianna Randall writes about the intersection of travel and science. The Valle de la Muerte (Death Valley) near San Pedro de ...
News Chile » Atacama » Politics: In Chile a language on the verge of extinction, stirs into life
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, ...
News Chile » Atacama » Politics: Unusual rainfall brings winter flowers to Chile's Atacama desert
Large swaths of the Atacama desert, the driest on the planet, have been covered with purple and white flowers after unusual rainfall patterns in northern Chile. Normally, such a desert bloom occurs ...
News Chile » Atacama » Politics: Inside Chile's spectacular Atacama super bloom: The desert that blooms once every few years
The Atacama Desert in northern Chile holds the record for being the driest non-polar desert on Earth. Some parts of it go decades without a single drop of rain. It looks, for most of the year, like a ...