The Atacama Desert is a major source of lithium for EV batteries. As global demand ramps up, the local Lickanantay people are ...

Most Atacama tourists are drawn to the north of the desert, to San Pedro de Atacama ... and how the Kolla people used it in their interpretations of life. It is a vivid place, with the Atacama ...

The Atacama is the world's non-polar driest desert. It is also the second overall ... was home to around 3,500 people. The mines were eventually abandoned in the 1960s and were occupied by ...

She has been working at PEOPLE since 2017 ... a visiting astronomer at the European Southern Observatory in the Atacama Desert, a "facility he had worked at many times before and was excited ...

Re-Commerce Atacama is part of an initiative to highlight the growing issue of discarded clothing in Chile and global textile waste. It was launched following a fashion show held in the desert last ...

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 ...

(page 1428, this issue) analyzed DNA isolated from bone marrow of mummies excavated from the Atacama desert in north Chile. People buried in cemeteries of this region were naturally mummified by ...