This hot desert area has not seen rain in five centuries and it’s so dry it’s gained a reputation for its record-breaking ...

It seems like merely a fact of life on the West Coast that summers are dry. But compared to most of the rest of the country ...

Still, this South American desert is extremely dry. In fact, some weather stations in the Atacama have never recorded rainfall. Despite the harsh conditions, the Atacama Desert is home to a ...

the Atacama receives 50 times less rain than Death Valley in California. In some regions, rainfall has never been measured since records began, a peculiarity due to the location of the desert ...

But the historic rainfall has turned the Atacama Desert, which is the driest place on Earth, into a flowering oasis. "The Atacama region was punished, but also blessed by the phenomenon of a ...

Some 3,800 years ago a massive 9.5-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami with waves as high as 20 metres (66 feet) slammed the coastline of Chile’s Atacama Desert, the world’s driest ...

A place that receives less than 10 inches (25 centimeters) of rain per year is considered ... The driest deserts, such as Chile's Atacama Desert, have parts that receive less than ...

Researchers in Spain have investigated how climate change may possibly impact solar power generation in the world’s region with the highest solar radiation levels – the Atacama desert in ...