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.

Saving the Planet With Electric Vehicles Means Strangling This Desert Lengths of pumping pipe lie on the ground at a Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile lithium mine on the Atacama salt flat in ...

In a bid to reduce its reliance on foreign imports of electronics raw materials, NASA has started a partnership with USGS by using a U-2 spy plane to map the minerals among deserts.