However, scientists from the University of Chile draw attention to the problem of rare blooming in the Atacama Desert. María Fernanda Pérez notes that the insects pollinating the plants do not ...

Chileans and tourists from further afield come to view the unusually colourful desert ... north of Chile, parts of the usually arid Atacama desert have turned into a carpet of flowers.

an enormous blanket of colorful flowers has carpeted Chile’s Atacama desert, the most arid in the world. The cyclical warming of the central Pacific may be causing droughts and floods in various ...

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 driest deserts, such as Chile's Atacama Desert ... can produce "super blooms," where even the Atacama becomes blanketed in wildflowers. Desert plants may have to go without fresh water ...

Workshops for guests include teaching about the region’s medicinal plants, local ceramics and ... "There is no place on earth quite like the Atacama desert,” explains Oliver Ripley, Our ...

Over a thousand years ago, the hundreds of giant geoglyphs carved into the desert in northern Chile were a bustling scene. They marked sources of water in the vast arid landscape and were where ...

The Atacama Desert, Chile. The driest non-polar desert on earth. Average annual rainfall? Under a millimetre, with some regions waiting decades between sparse showers. The temperature swings from ...