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 a ...

Modern humans first evolved sometime around 200,000 years ago in the grasslands of East Africa. But evolution is not a static process and continues to occur in the background even in recent times. It ...

Chile's Atacama desert is best known for its salt lagoons in the north, but head to the Mar de Dunas in the southern part and you will be rewarded with perfect wind-sculptured wave patterns as far as ...

From Phoenix, Arizona to Amman, Jordan, desert cities around the world are facing the daunting water shortages that only extreme drought, rapid population growth, and groundwater abuse can bring. As ...

As the oldest and driest desert on Earth, Chile's Atacama Desert is a treasure trove of discoveries for scientists and ...

Underneath the parched sands of Atacama is a massive, diverse group of bacteria and a previously undetected biosphere, according to a new study. Reading time 2 minutes The Atacama Desert—an arid, ...

" Chasing a Plate is in the Atacama Desert, Chile! It's Day 2 of our Atacama Desert road trip and we manage to cover Laguna ...

Benito Gómez-Silva is surrounded by nothing. For as far as the eye can see, no plants dot the landscape; no animals amble across the salt-crusted soil that stretches out to the base of distant ...

Fly above the Atacama Desert, showcasing one of the most extreme and visually striking landscapes on Earth. Located in ...

The Atacama Desert of northern Chile is mostly known as one of the driest places on the planet and for being home to several major astronomical observatories. It was also home to the Atacama people, ...