Flamingos doing their thing at Laguna Chaxa, a saline lake in the Salar de Atacama, the world's third largest salt flat. The Sahara and Arabian deserts are justly famous for their oasis escapes ...
Two metres below the surface of the Atacama Desert there is an ‘oasis’ of microorganisms. Researchers from the Center of Astrobiology (Spain) and the Catholic University of the North in Chile have ...
For the last twenty million years, Chile’s Atacama Desert has been the driest, most inhospitable place on Earth. But deep below the surface of this unimaginably arid world, microbes are flourishing ...
An oasis in Chile’s Atacama desert may have once served as a hub for the trade of live parrots from across the Andes. An analysis of the remains of whole birds and feathers found at an archaeological ...
The Atacama Desert in northern Chile holds the record for being the driest non-polar desert on Earth. Some parts of it go ...
Confession: It never occurred to me, until I was in my fifth decade, that flamingos can fly. I knew they had wings – famously handy appendages when it comes to flight – but I never clocked that the ...
Dubbed Gabriela, the fourth phase of the Oasis de Atacama project in Chile comprises 272MW of solar PV and 1.1GWh of BESS. Image: Grenergy. Spanish independent power producer (IPP) has energised the ...