The Atacama Desert in Chile is widely recognised as the driest nonpolar desert in the world ...

The Canadian miner’s reinvention as a critical-metals player—via its massive copper mine in Chile’s Andean foothills— could ...

Thousands of foreign travellers visit the geysers, salt flats, oases and volcanoes of north Chile's Atacama Desert. It is located on the Pacific coast of South America, in the north of the country.

ON A MAY MORNING two pickup trucks passed through the quiet town of San Pedro in Chile’s Atacama Desert and headed up a mountainside on a dirt road. It was 1994, and the five men inside the ...

The effects of a proposed green-energy facility in Chile could be devastating for some of the most powerful instruments ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. ABSTRACT We discuss properties of the atmospheric water vapor above the high Andean plateau region known as the Llano de Chajnantor, in ...

Some 3,800 years ago a massive 9.5-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami with waves as high as 20 metres (66 feet) slammed the coastline of Chile’s Atacama Desert, the world’s driest ...

SANTIAGO, Chile — As cities worldwide grapple with water shortages, researchers in northern Chile are turning their attention skyward, not for rain, but for fog. In Alto Hospicio, a rapidly ...

IN SAN PEDRO DE ATACAMA, CHILE – The drive up to Chajnantor Plateau in northern Chile is a rough one. Out here in the Atacama Desert – the driest place on Earth – the morning air is cold ...