Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LLANOS DE CHALLE NATIONAL PARK, Chile (AP) — A rare bloom in Chile’s Atacama Desert has briefly transformed one of the world’s ...

It is often described as the driest place on Earth, though that description feels almost too neat. According toDiscovery, in some parts, rainfall averages around 0.03 inches a year. In others, rain ...

The Atacama Desert in Chile is famously known for taking that superlative, even though some parts of Antarctica are technically even drier (they don't count because who is going there?!). Officially, ...

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Scientists have studied the driest regions of the Atacama Desert to understand whether life could exist on Mars ...

LLANOS DE CHALLE NATIONAL PARK, Chile (AP) — A rare bloom in Chile’s Atacama Desert has briefly transformed one of the world’s driest places into a dazzling carpet of fuchsia-colored wildflowers. The ...