ATACAMA DESERT, Chile — At the top of a craggy path in Socaire, a hilltop village deep in Chile's Atacama Desert, a black flag whips in the wind above Jeanette Cruz's house. The desert sun has ...

On the Atacama Desert plateau, the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array, known as ALMA, is situated, the work of an international consortium of research institutions, including those in ...

Learn how fog collection can help mitigate water shortage in Alto Hospicio, providing vital resources to underserved ...

Water harvesting from foggy air provided up to 5 liters of water a day in a yearlong Chilean desert experiment.

It is situated in the middle of the arid Atacama Desert, considered one of the best places on Earth for astronomy. The telescope is located on Armazones Hill, about 3,050 meters (10,000 feet ...

The desert’s remoteness and ... to move them to new locations on the plateau as needed. By the time it was officially inaugurated in March 2013, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter ...

Chile’s Chajnantor plateau in the Atacama Desert hosts world-renowned observatories like the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment ...

Work Progresses on Giant Telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert By Rodrigo Gutierrez CERRO ARMAZONES, Chile (Reuters) - Dozens of boxes holding mirrors are placed along a remote desert hill in ...

Some 3,800 years ago a massive 9.5-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami with waves as high as 20 metres (66 feet) slammed the coastline of Chile’s Atacama Desert, the world’s driest ...

and salt lakes of western China and the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. In the driest desert in the world—the Atacama Desert of Chile—Kimberley teamed with Carnegie Mellon Institute of Robotics for several ...