Relocating to Alto Hospicio, she established an unauthorized compound on government lands at the ... Medina’s gargantuan desert dump had become an open secret in Chile, stretching across dozens ...

Some of these species are threatened, but thrive here despite the expansion of the desert, which is driven by overconsumption of water, land erosion and climate change. According to Chile’s ...

The Atacama Desert in Chile is considered one of the driest regions ... could serve as a complementary urban water supply in dry lands where climate change exacerbates water scarcity.

But Chile's massive Atacama desert is a unique and fragile ecosystem ... "We feel abandoned. We feel that our land has been sacrificed." - A 'very fragile' ecosystem'- For more than eight million ...

Dust to Dust: What a road trip through Chile’s Atacama Desert — one of the world ... Look at the same land from an airplane and distance reveals the ghost of water, the branching etchings ...

A 6.4 magnitude earthquake has struck northern Chile, causing minor infrastructure damage and cutting power to over 20,000 people.

Around 12 percent of Earth’s land is covered by ... ecologist at Major University in Chile, tests that hypothesis by unleashing his own tiny floods upon the desert. He pours gallons of bottled ...

Around 12% of Earth’s land is covered by biocrusts ... Alfaro, a microbial ecologist at Major University in Chile, tests that hypothesis by unleashing his own tiny floods upon the desert. He pours ...