Pablo Guerrero has been visiting cacti in the Atacama Desert his whole life, first on family trips to the Chilean coast and later as a researcher studying the impacts of climate change and illegal ...
About 700 miles long, the Atacama Desert features sand dunes and low ... holes burrowed into “guano” (excreta and remains of animals that have accumulated on the ground as fertilizer and ...
with natural features like the Atacama Desert and Elqui Valley found along its northern reaches—yet when it comes to abundant natural beauty, few destinations can match the splendor of Magallanes.
A new technique allows researchers to separate external and internal DNA to identify microbes colonizing the hostile environment of the Atacama Desert. The Atacama Desert, which runs along the ...