Observatories in Chile’s Atacama Desert, including the world’s largest optical telescope, could be blinded by light pollution ...

This megaproject, which was proposed in December by U.S. power company AES Corporation's AES Andes subsidiary, may be built in Chile's Atacama Desert. The Atacama is famed for its pitch-black ...

Across the Americas, off-roaders have caused headaches by trashing the environment, then making their recklessness other ...

This complex threatens the pristine skies above ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile's Atacama Desert, the darkest and clearest of any astronomical observatory in the world. The industrial ...

The Atacama Desert, which runs along the Pacific Coast ... "which is often the bottleneck in low-biomass environments." To remedy that problem, he and his collaborators developed a process for ...

"There is no place on earth quite like the Atacama desert,” explains Oliver Ripley, Our Habitas Co-Founder and CEO. “It's an incredibly serene and humbling place, which is a draw for those ...

Work Progresses on Giant Telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert By Rodrigo Gutierrez CERRO ARMAZONES, Chile (Reuters) - Dozens of boxes holding mirrors are placed along a remote desert hill in ...

The Atacama Desert has some of the darkest ... then we can forget being able to solve the problem of light pollution as a global environmental issue.” Furthermore, the group noted, other ...

Far from being barren wastelands, deserts are biologically rich habitats with a vast array of animals and plants that have adapted to the harsh conditions there. Some deserts are among the planet ...

The Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert. Image: wikimedia commons The PV complex consists of 18,565 bifacial panels installed on trackers, distributed over 7.2 hectares of land, with a plant ...

ESO's Extremely Large Telescope construction at Atacama desert in Chile ...

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 ...