Stretching across northern Chile, the Atacama Desert is a land of contrasts, where vast salt flats meet clear, starry skies. It is a destination that offers a unique blend of natural beauty and ...

From diverse viewing points the massive salt flats may look like desert covered by water, snow, or just like scenic mountains and hills in some places. When ancient Lake Bonneville dried up ...

Chile is the world's second-largest lithium producer. It has been a welcome boon to the economy, but local community members ...

The desert is now covered by a salt crust that’s thick and also extremely flat. Over the entire area of the salar (10,582 ...

HABITAT: The flat-tailed horned lizard is most often found in desert scrub on sandy flats and valleys with little or no windblown sand, as well as on salt flats and gravelly soils. RANGE: The ...