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 Atacama Desert stretches along the coast of northern ... It’s not clear whether climate change or El Niño (a natural climate phenomenon that influences global weather) are to blame for ...
The driest deserts, such as Chile's Atacama Desert, have parts that receive less ... Some plants have adapted to the arid climate by growing long roots that tap water from deep underground.
Conservation efforts and climate finance in South America are too focused on iconic biodiversity hot spots, like the Amazon rainforest, at the peril of crucial desert, wetland and other ecosystems, ...
The Atacama Desert, which runs along the Pacific Coast in Chile, is the driest place on the planet and, largely because of that aridity, hostile to most living things. Not everything, though ...
Chileans and tourists from further afield come to view the unusually colourful desert After intense and unexpected rain fell in the north of Chile, parts of the usually arid Atacama desert have ...
One in three species of cactus are at risk of extinction, yet, despite this, there is limited research in the area. The IUCN ...