Now, a pile of discarded clothes, almost as big as a town, in the Atacama Desert of Chile is visible from space, and it is growing, per Space.com. In 2023, a satellite image of the mountain of ...

A jaw-dropping discovery has been made beneath the world's longest, driest desert, revealing a 5,000-year-old civilization ...

The Atacama is the world's non-polar driest desert. It is also the second overall driest in the world. It is here that travellers will find the starkly beautiful ghost town of Humberstone.

A stunning seaside city is one of the driest places on earth, seeing less than a centimetre of rain annually. Arica, a port city in northern Chile, is part of the Atacama Desert, the driest non ...

New research reveals that only the most intense Atlantic-sourced storms are responsible for filling a normally dry lake in ...

Stretching across northern Chile and southern Peru, the Atacama is the driest non-polar desert on the planet. With its "Martian landscapes" and sprawling salt flats, the arid "geographical ...

If the current dry period continues and the upcoming summer monsoon season is drier than normal, it’s possible a lot of desert plants will die, said Dimmitt and Ben Wilder, a researcher and ...