If soaking in healing hot springs and slathering mud on your back sounds like your idea of a good time, head to this ...

He adds that the Atacama salt flat is a “unique ecosystem” as it’s connected to the eastern, southern and western edges of the desert. For Chocobar, the Indigenous guardian, there’s little ...

The Atacama Desert is a major source of lithium for EV batteries. As global demand ramps up, the local Lickanantay people are racing to protect already scarce water supplies and their way of life.

A low-cost device draws moisture from air in the driest place on Earth, the Atacama Desert in Chile (Device 2025, DOI: 10.1016/j.device.2025.100798). The device uses a water-absorbing hydrogel ...

A football court, paid by lithium companies, in the indiginous community of Peine, the closest town to the lithium mining operations, in the Atacama Salt Flat on Saturday 12 of April, 2024.

Chile's Atacama salt flat is sinking at a rate of 1 to 2 centimeters (0.4 to 0.8 inches) per year due to lithium brine extraction, according to a study by the University of Chile.

VIEW IMAGES (3) Edward Burtynsky Canadian, b. 1955 Lithium Salt Flats, Atacama Desert, Chile, 2017 ...

From there, you move on to Salar de Atacama, a national park. Here, the salt flats, rocky and rugged, extend forever and you can walk through them. Keep reading with a digital access subscription.

CHANARAL, Chile (Reuters) -In Chile's arid Atacama, the driest desert in the world, growers and researchers are looking to harness water from the very air itself to grow lettuces and lemons, using ...