Botanist Pablo Guerrero has been visiting Atacama cacti all his life. They’re not adapting well to a drier climate, booming mining and plant collection.

The Atacama Desert in Chile, known as the driest place on Earth, experiences a rare phenomenon called the Atacama Desert Bloom. Despite minimal rainfall, the desert thrives on camanchaca ...

The Atacama Desert stretches along the coast of northern ... It’s not clear whether climate change or El Niño (a natural climate phenomenon that influences global weather) are to blame for ...

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 driest deserts, such as Chile's Atacama Desert, have parts that receive less ... Some plants have adapted to the arid climate by growing long roots that tap water from deep underground.

The Atacama Desert, renowned as the driest hot desert ... thriving despite the arid climate. In their quest to understand the ...

A new technique allows researchers to separate external and internal DNA to identify microbes colonizing the hostile environment of the Atacama Desert. The Atacama Desert, which runs along the ...

Conservation efforts and climate finance in South America are too focused on iconic biodiversity hot spots, like the Amazon rainforest, at the peril of crucial desert, wetland and other ecosystems, ...