Atacama Desert, Chile. The driest desert in the world, meets the Pacific Ocean. Photograph: courtesy of © Allison Davies
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The Atacama desert is experiencing a rare springtime bloom of flowers after El Niño brought the heaviest rainfall in two decades earlier this year. The desert is usually one of the driest places on Earth…
Read Full Article And View Photo Gallery, Guardian UK
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…
