Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia The Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia is nothing short of magical. This vast salt flat, covering more than 10,000 square kilometers, is a dazzling display of nature's purity and ...

Extremophiles: Life in Extreme Conditions Extremophiles are the superheroes of the microbial world. These organisms find a way to live, and sometimes even thrive, in conditions so harsh they appear ...

The Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia is the largest ... It looks like any other volcano during the daytime. The Atacama Desert in northern Chile is one of the driest and most desolate places on Earth.

The enchanting dunescape stretches over 43 miles (70 km) along the coast and over 30 miles (50 km) inland. Lençois translates ...

Laser beams streak from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope array in Chile’s Atacama Desert ... team leader Nathalie Cabrol. The Salar de Pajonales, a dry gypsum lake ...

Water harvesting from foggy air provided up to 5 liters of water a day in a yearlong Chilean desert experiment.

This hot desert area has not seen rain in five centuries and it’s so dry it’s gained a reputation for its record-breaking lack of precipitation. The Atacama Desert, in Chile, is the driest non ...

It is situated in the middle of the arid Atacama Desert, considered one of the best places on Earth for astronomy. The telescope is located on Armazones Hill, about 3,050 meters (10,000 feet ...

Here laser beams leave the dome of the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert. [Rodrigo Gutierrez/Reuters] At a factory in Narayanganj, Bangladesh, clothing waste ...

Val Martinez Garcia will earn an annual salary of $325,000 — roughly $27,000 a month — as the acting superintendent/president of College of the Desert, the board of trustees announced at its ...