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 ...

Stretching over a 1,600-kilometre-long strip of land west of the Andes Mountains, it covers an area of 105,000 km². This ...

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

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.

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 ...