Chile's Indigenous communities in the lithium-rich Atacama Desert are in talks with two of the nation's biggest miners to ...

The negotiations with Chile's state-run Codelco and Chilean lithium producer SQM, come as the companies are close to ...

In the main square of Peine, a village of low houses and dirt streets in Chile’s northern Atacama Desert, there is barely any movement. It’s midday and the sun beats down from a cloudless sky.

Peine sits on the edge of the nearly 1,200-square-mile Atacama Salt Flat, or Salar de Atacama. Sitting beneath its surface, dissolved in underground saline waters called brine, is one of the ...

ACT captures the universe’s first light with unmatched precision High-resolution data refines models of cosmic evolution Findings support existing theories but don’t resolve Hubble tension ...

The saltscape isn’t just the flattest place on Earth’s surface, it also doubles as the largest natural mirror.