La Portada, Antofagasta, Chile. Photo source: ©© Arman Mesh
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To provide a steady supply of clean energy, a novel energy project in Chile will harness the natural attributes that Chile has in abundance: seawater, coastal cliffs, and the Atacama Desert’s solar radiation.
This will avoid the need to build dams and reduce construction of underground tunnels by up to 80 percent, according to the promoters of the project.
The fishing village’s inhabitants, who make a living from small-scale fishing and harvesting shellfish and giant kelp, were initially wary, afraid the initiative would have a negative impact on local marine resources…
Microbial Oasis Discovered Beneath the Atacama Desert, Science Daily (02-17-2012)
Two metres below the surface of the Atacama Desert there is an ‘oasis’ of microorganisms…
Whales In The Desert: A Fossil Mystery, AP (11-20-2011)
More than 2 million years ago, scores of whales congregating off the Pacific Coast of South America mysteriously met their end, in the same corner of the Atacama Desert, Chile. Today, they have emerged again atop a desert hill more than a kilometer (half a mile) from the surf, where researchers have begun to unearth one of the world’s best-preserved graveyards of prehistoric whales…
Atacama Desert, Chile; By Allison Davies, Coastal Care’s Photo of the Month; November 2010
