Herbaceous plants — like those flowering in the Atacama Desert — have a self-pollination mechanism that activates if a pollinator does not arrive in a given year. But this backup occurs late ...

Discover why Antarctica no longer has lush forests with giant ferns and how ancient fires fueled intense volcanic activity.

From the American Southwest to South Africa, desert plants have been targets of plant poaching. Even the remote Atacama wasn’t safe. How, Guerrero wondered, was poaching affecting the desert’s ...

Chile's Atacama Desert becomes a spectacle during the rainy season due to the different amount of flora species that are born gracing the large expanse of land of this magnificent site. Visitors ...

The driest deserts, such as Chile's Atacama Desert, have parts that receive less than .08 inches (2 mm) of precipitation a year. ... Many desert plants can live for hundreds of years.

The cacti are now in an Atacama Desert greenhouse managed by the National Forest Corporation of Chile (Conaf), although some local reports suggest some of the plants may have gone missing.

Of water, of life. Whatever is determined enough to exist there — people, plants, animals, even ... What a road trip through Chile’s Atacama Desert — one of the world’s driest places ...

The Atacama Desert spans more than 40,000 square miles, so travelers have plenty of options when it comes to accommodations. “There are about 400 places, from camping [sites] to Airbnbs to high ...