The Valley of Mars in the Atacama Desert, with the Andes in the ... Chinchorro arrived from no one quite knows where — similar coastal communities farther north, or the highlands or both ...

Most Atacama tourists are drawn to the ... Antarctica prevents rain clouds from forming on the coast. But there has always been life in the desert. Thousands of years ago, indigenous groups ...

Tucked away on the Pacific coast of South America, the Atacama Desert, stretching over 1,600 kilometers in northern Chile, is a natural wonder like no other. Its barren, otherworldly landscape ...

This is the Atacama Desert and its geological history juts ... No hint of cloud blocks its path; they get caught up at the coastal mountain range and don’t make it this far inland.

After heading south along Chile’s Coast Mountain range, we turn inland towards the Atacama’s heart. Here the University of Antofagasta desert microbiologist will search for a microscopic ...

Professor Azua-Bustos and González-Silva wear sterile suites and use collecting materials in order to avoid the contamination of the sites studied in the Coastal Range of Atacama Desert in Chile.

World's biggest 'white gold' mine The Atacama nitrates create a giant, nearly continuous belt inland of the Chilean Coast Ranges — the mountains that mark the high desert's western boundary.

Growing up in Chile’s Atacama Desert, Paulina Villalobos thought the ... Just like people who come from the coast miss the ocean, she said, “I missed the sky.” The extraordinary darkness ...

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 ...

Perimortem cranium fractures, Formative Period. Violence in fishing, hunting, and gathering societies of the Atacama Desert coast: A long-term perspective (10,000 BP—AD 1450) Violence in fishing ...

When Eduardo Unda-Sanzana arrived in Chile’s Atacama Desert to teach astronomy ... a city on the Pacific Coast that’s logged a more than 50% population increase in the past two decades.