After thousands of rare Chilean cacti were found in the house of an Italian collector, a years-long trial slowly unravelled ...

The deep ocean is a vast reservoir of biodiversity that harbors unique species, communities, and ecosystems,” write the authors of a new study. We tend to think of the deep ocean as cold, dark, and ...

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 Atacama desert, which fringes the city on its southern edge, spans some 600 miles along the Pacific Coast of South America, and is one of the most extreme landscapes on the planet.

After evaporation, the lithium chloride from the Salar de Atacama is loaded on to trucks and carried across the desert, ...

The Atacama Trench, off the coast of South America, drops nearly 8 kilometers into the ocean, making it one of the deepest and least explored places on Earth. Scientists have long been curious ...