The Atacama Desert in Chile is widely recognised as the driest nonpolar desert in the world ...

In contrast, the driest place on Earth is the Atacama Desert in Chile, which is renowned for its extreme aridity. It receives less than 1mm of rain each year, making it even drier than the polar ...

A stunning seaside city is one of the driest places on earth, seeing less than a centimetre of rain annually. Arica, a port city in northern Chile, is part of the Atacama Desert, the driest non ...

In the case of the Atacama Desert, El Niño can lead to sporadic but significant rain events, creating the perfect conditions for a desert bloom. The desert bloom features an array of native ...

Some 3,800 years ago a massive 9.5-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami with waves as high as 20 metres (66 feet) slammed the coastline of Chile’s Atacama Desert, the world’s driest ...

The VLT, located in Chile’s Atacama Desert, uses the light emitted by the excited atoms to correct for the effect that our atmosphere has on starlight as it passes through. ESO described the ...

the Atacama receives 50 times less rain than Death Valley in California. In some regions, rainfall has never been measured since records began, a peculiarity due to the location of the desert ...

The Earth is home to some of the most breath-taking landscapes, but it also harbours regions so extreme that they challenge ...