For the first time in a decade, plants in the Atacama Desert have started flowering in the middle of winter, covering a portion of the driest desert on the planet in white and violet hues.

Botanist Pablo Guerrero has been visiting Atacama cacti all his life. They’re not adapting well to a drier climate, booming mining and plant collection.

parts of the usually arid Atacama desert have turned into a carpet of flowers. The "desierto florido" (flowering desert) phenomenon usually occurs every five to seven years when rains cause buried ...

The Atacama Desert, primarily located in Chile along the Pacific Ocean, is flush with flowers after relatively heavy precipitation in March and August fell in the drought-stricken region.

COPIAP, Chile: Here’s a softer side to the disruptive weather phenomenon known as El Nino: an enormous blanket of colorful flowers has carpeted Chile’s Atacama desert, the most arid in the world.

The new crustacean was discovered deep in the Atacama Trench that lies off of the coast of Peru, scientists reported in the journal Systematics and Biodiversity. This discovery of the species ...

Scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and the Instituto Milenio de Oceanografía (IMO) embarked on a daring expedition to the Atacama Trench — one of the deepest parts of the ...

But the historic rainfall has turned the Atacama Desert, which is the driest place on Earth, into a flowering oasis. "The Atacama region was punished, but also blessed by the phenomenon of a ...

This year, Chile got the approval to export table grapes to the U.S. market under the Systems Approach, sending more than ...