The effects of a proposed green-energy facility in Chile could be devastating for some of the most powerful instruments ...

They grow a mere centimetre each year in scorching, breathtaking desert conditions by absorbing the ... traded cacti from the United States, Mexico and Argentina. The case was dubbed Operation Atacama ...

Chilean police have launched a major search for a British scientist who has gone missing in the north of the country. Thomas Richard Marsh, an astrophysicist at University of Warwick, was last ...

Thousands of foreign travellers visit the geysers, salt flats, oases and volcanoes of north Chile's Atacama Desert. It is located on the Pacific coast of South America, in the north of the country.

Defined by their extreme aridity and minimal rainfall, deserts are often seen as harsh and inhospitable. While they are most commonly associated with Africa and Asia, they exist on every continent ...