ATACAMA DESERT, Chile — In the middle of the desert in northern Chile, massive pools of Caribbean blue water sit next to what appear to be snowdrifts. But this is a lithium mine. The pools are ...

Chile's Atacama desert is best known for its salt lagoons in the north, but head to the Mar de Dunas in the southern part and you will be rewarded with perfect wind-sculptured wave patterns as far ...

A look at lithium mining in Chile's Atacama Desert, known as the Saudi Arabia of the EV industry.

Chile is the world's second-largest lithium producer. It has been a welcome boon to the economy, but local community members consider it a disaster.

In the Atacama desert, stargazers want to dim the lights on a mining boom.

Residents of the world's driest desert, the Atacama in northern Chile, woke up Thursday to a jaw-dropping spectacle: its ...

The Council of Atacameño Peoples filed a complaint in October 2024 against lithium mining companies operating in Chile’s Atacama salt flat, accusing them of causing the land to sink around ...

Growing up in Chile’s Atacama Desert, Paulina Villalobos thought the Milky Way’s presence in the pristine starry skies was a given. Her father, an amateur astronomer, would wake her when a ...

But lithium mining in Chile involves pumping huge amounts of groundwater out from under the desert, potentially damaging ecosystems. The quest for decarbonization may leave new scars on the Atacama.

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.

A hike through part of Chile's Atacama Desert reveals seas of sand dunes, some of the world's best stargazing spots, and surprising meals Crescent-shaped sand dunes rise and fall steeply, some up ...