A small team of engineers from the U.S., Chile and Ireland has found a way to extract more water from drier air, allowing for ...

Chile is constructing the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), the world's largest optical and near-infrared telescope, atop ...

A device involving solar panels and a gel produces substantial amounts of water in one of the world’s driest deserts.

A hydrogel-based water-harvesting device can pull water from air in the Atacama Desert, the driest place on Earth.

When it comes to my in-shower process, I'm usually a two-step kind of girl. I like to lather up with bar soap before moving ...

On the other hand, every few years, an unusually rainy period can produce "super blooms," where even the Atacama becomes blanketed in wildflowers. Desert plants may have to go without fresh water ...

TotalEnergies just planted a major flag on the global green hydrogen landscape—and it’s right in the sun-blasted, ...

Beneath Chile’s brilliant skies, the ELT grows—an engineering giant ready to capture the secrets of the universe with the ...

Lickanantay Indigenous communities in Chile's Atacama Desert are negotiating with mining ... and social decisions—such as water protection and extraction methods—rather than commercial control.

Flamingos feed in Laguna Chaxa, a salt-rich lagoon in Chile’s Atacama Desert. It’s a location that flamingos have adapted to live in over millennia. But each year, is still a struggle.