The Salar de Uyuni, the world’s largest and most staggeringly beautiful salt flat, hides within the folds of the Bolivian ...

Prehistoric lakes once covered Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni near the crest of the Andes ... During the rainy season, most of the enormous salt flat is covered by shallow water, as rain has nowhere ...

Tour operators recommend four-day tours from Tupiza, visiting Salar de Uyuni on the final day. The star-studded night sky casts the salt flats shades of blue. During the dry season the ground ...

Compared with other salt flats like Salar de Atacama in Chile, which has a salt crust more than 3,300 feet (1,000 m) thick in some places, Salar de Uyuni is "pretty thin," McKnight said ...

the blinding white Salar de Uyuni salt flat stretches for more than 4,500 square miles. There is no place else like it in the world. At nearly 12,000 feet above sea level, the Salar dazzles the ...

Scientists have made a surprising discovery about the chemistry of lithium-rich salty waters, known as brines, found in some ...

Duke University researchers reveal boron controls pH in lithium-rich brines, offering insights to improve lithium extraction.

THIS eerily beautiful place is Salar de Uyuni, the world’s largest salt flat. It lies at the crest of the Bolivian Andes and covers over 10,000 square kilometres. But below its stunning surface ...

The Salar de Uyuni is the world's largest salt flat. It stretches over 4,000 sq miles (10,400 sq km), and in the dry season can be seen from the Moon. It has traditionally been mined by locals for ...

As demand soars for powerful batteries, Bolivia dreams of striking it rich by tapping its huge lithium deposit. But will its people benefit? While the indigenous Aymara population harvests and ...

Here’s how it works. Why it's incredible: The salt flat is the largest on Earth and contains a huge chunk of the world's lithium. Salar de Uyuni is the largest salt desert on Earth, stretching ...