A stunning seaside city is one of the driest places on earth, seeing less than a centimetre of rain annually. Arica, a port city in northern Chile, is part of the Atacama Desert, the driest non ...

Receiving just 0.5 millimetres of rainfall per year on average, the Atacama receives 50 times less rain ... to the desert, but Chile, Peru and Bolivia were all the more interested, and after ...

A place that receives less than 10 inches (25 centimeters) of rain per year is considered ... The driest deserts, such as Chile's Atacama Desert, have parts that receive less than ...

The city of Alto Hospicio, in Chile’s Atacama Desert, is one of the driest places ... on nearby aquifers that haven’t been recharged by rain in 10,000 years. But Alto Hospicio, like so many ...

Researchers in Chile are launching a project to combat water scarcity in the Atacama Desert by setting up fog collectors in and around Alto Hospicio. These fog collectors will be used in practical ...

Stretching across northern Chile and southern Peru, the Atacama is the driest non-polar desert on the planet. With its "Martian landscapes" and sprawling salt flats, the arid "geographical ...

The body of a 60-year-old British astronomer and professor was found in the Chilean desert two months after he went missing ... Southern Observatory in the Atacama Desert, a "facility he had ...