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

The clarity of Chilean skies in the Atacama Desert may be in jeopardy given a project entertained by the electricity company ...

As they say, life finds a way. Microbial life has been discovered existing 13 feet beneath the surface of Earth’s most ...

AES Andes, a subsidiary of the US power company AES Corporation, submitted a project for a massive industrial complex for ...

Scientists have examined the soils in those parts of the Atacama desert that may not see any ... because they may serve as a template for how life could survive on Mars. "All the stresses you ...

"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 ...

A mountain of discarded clothing and other rubbish in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile is now so large it can be seen ...

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 ...

The driest deserts, such as Chile's Atacama Desert ... shrubs and replacing them with fast-growing grasses. Many desert plants can live for hundreds of years. But in California, the iconic ...

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