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

The effects of a proposed green-energy facility in Chile could be devastating for some of the most powerful instruments ...

Sonia Ramos, a Lickanantay healer born in Chuquicamata, has risen as a defender of water in the Atacama Desert. Council of Atacameño Peoples, She founded Ayllus sin Fronteras, an organization ...

Fog is a cheap and abundant source of fresh water, especially in remote dry regions. And it also has great potential for ...

Despite its extreme dryness, the desert is known as world's largest fog desert, with fog providing some moisture, particularly in coastal areas ...

The Canadian miner’s reinvention as a critical-metals player—via its massive copper mine in Chile’s Andean foothills— could ...

Thousands of foreign travellers visit the geysers, salt flats, oases and volcanoes of north Chile's Atacama Desert. It is located on the Pacific coast of South America, in the north of the country.

The cacti are now in an Atacama Desert greenhouse managed by the National ... Some have up to 20 thick, water-filled branches and others flaunt small baby ones just a couple of years old.

The stunning comet C/2024 G3 lights up the sunset sky over Chile's Very Large Telescope in this spectacular photo.

The Canadian-built Atacama Cosmology Telescope in the high Chilean desert mountains, which has just given up its final batch ...