First of 3 parts Miriam Abarca is standing on a wooden platform overlooking the Cahuil Lagoon, a small, salty pine-fringed ...

A “mycology thriller” imagines a hidden healing mushroom. In real life, scientists are searching far and wide to map the world’s unseen fungi.

A project backed by the Chilean government and UNEP is helping to revive the Cahuil wetland and kickstart economic growth.

The world-renowned Paranal Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert peers through what are ... ammonia and hydrogen production plants, and thousands of electricity generation units.

The world-renowned Paranal Observatory in Chile's Atacama Desert peers through what are ... ammonia and hydrogen production plants, and thousands of electricity generation units.

On Earth, plants and certain bacteria produce oxygen ... s eponymous Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) in the Atacama Desert of Chile, is scheduled to start operation in 2024. The light-gathering ...

The Atacama Desert is considered one of the most important astronomical ... but could include green hydrogen and ammonia production plants, solar and wind farms as well as battery storage facilities.

It’s hard to recycle the clothing and much of it ends up in the landfill, including a giant dump in Chile’s Atacama Desert. “Fabrics that you see ... At a former dairy farm in Lancaster County, Pa., ...

Solar photovoltaic (PV) panels now cover rooftops in San Diego, California; the Atacama Desert in Chile ... designed for centralized fossil fuel plants, not decentralized renewables.

Why is traveling to the desert during cacti bloom season a unique ... Iconic deserts like North America's Sonoran and South America's Atacama are world-famous for their stunning cacti blooms.

In this study, we examine the root ecological strategies of 32 dominant shrub species in Chile’s Coastal Atacama Desert, focusing on the link between ... fine roots (1-2 mm diameter) from the same ...

This discovery represented a crucial step in understanding how plants grow and how that growth is regulated by light. Paul Butler initiates observational exoplanet research at Carnegie using precision ...