Chile’s Atacama desert is blooming with colors, amid plans from authorities to create an artificial irrigation system that will see spring become a regular event in this normally austere landscape.

LLANOS DE CHALLE NATIONAL PARK, Chile (AP) — A rare bloom in Chile’s Atacama Desert has briefly transformed one of the world’s driest places into a dazzling carpet of fuchsia-colored wildflowers. The ...

Atacama desert during 'Desierto Florido', a natural phenomenon that fill with flowers the driest desert in the world in Copiapo Atacama desert during 'Desierto Florido', a natural phenomenon that fill ...

The Atacama Desert in northern Chile is one of the driest places on Earth, but swaths of its usually barren sand are currently carpeted with a colorful bloom of white and purple flowers. The Atacama ...