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 ...

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

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

Did you know that there’s a mountain in Chile’s Atacama desert made entirely of clothes? Chile is a huge importer of secondhand clothes from developed countries, including the United States. Sadly, ...

Most of us work long, back-breaking weeks doing things that don't motivate us so we can book vacations to keep us going.

A proposed industrial complex by AES Andes near the Paranal Observatory in Chile's Atacama Desert could devastate the area's world-renowned dark skies. Celebrated for its vital role in major ...

“This is why we live in the desert, because we are able to come up with an answer where one might not even exist,” she says. A solitary flamingo flies over the Atacama salt flat. Image by ...

Accessible to anyone the world over, witnessing the majesty of the solar system, including the Milky Way, and its billions of ...

The Atacama Desert in Chile is considered one of the most inhospitable places on Earth due to its extreme dryness, high ...