Miners once lived and worked in Humberstone saltpeter works. Now it's a ghost town and UNESCO World Heritage Site. Photos ...

"Light pollution will irreparably impact the capabilities for astronomical observation," the ESO's Xavier Barcons said.

Chileans and tourists from further afield come to view the unusually colourful desert After intense and unexpected rain fell in the north of Chile, parts of the usually arid Atacama desert have ...

In the heart of Chile's extremely dry Atacama Desert, a rare winter bloom is taking place, showcasing vibrant flowers amid serious climate concerns.

Chile’s famed Atacama Desert lies in the north near the border ... I found myself in tears looking at the turquoise glacial lakes, snow-dusted granite monoliths, and rolling grasslands.

The Atacama desert in Chile is one of the driest places on Earth. Today, it has been reduced to the world’s dumping yard Mountains of discarded clothes, shoes, and scrapped tires have been ...

The vast white sands of the Lencois Maranhenses desert meet with the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. This surreal landscape is ...

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 ...

The Atacama ... desert – a landscape so vast and arid that Nasa practices Mars expeditions there. So when a carpet of purple flowers began poking through the earth in October 2022, Chile ...

"There is no place on earth quite like the Atacama desert,” explains Oliver Ripley, Our Habitas Co-Founder and CEO. “It's an incredibly serene and humbling place, which is a draw for those ...

This megaproject, which was proposed in December by U.S. power company AES Corporation's AES Andes subsidiary, may be built in Chile's Atacama Desert. The Atacama is famed for its pitch-black ...