The Atacama Desert in northern Chile is one of the driest places on Earth, but swaths of its usually barren sand are currently carpeted with a colorful bloom of white and purple flowers.

Black Desert's lakes will serve as a protected environment, allowing the fish to mature away from natural predators before being reintroduced into their native habitat in the Virgin River.

The sand dunes of Chile's Atacama desert, the driest on the planet, have been blanketed by white and purple blooms in recent days after early rains caused flowers to spring up in the dead of the ...