Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chile's Atacama desert is best known for its salt lagoons in the north, but head to the Mar de Dunas in the southern part and you ...

The Atacama Desert of Chile is largely considered the driest place on Earth, but recently saw the moon-like landscape blanketed in snow. Jared Verdi via Unsplash Nestled between the Andes Mountains ...

Stretching across northern Chile and southern Peru, the Atacama is the driest non-polar desert on the planet. With its "Martian landscapes" and sprawling salt flats, the arid "geographical ...

Benito Gómez-Silva is surrounded by nothing. For as far as the eye can see, no plants dot the landscape; no animals amble across the salt-crusted soil that stretches out to the base of distant ...

When most people think of deserts, they imagine vast stretches of sand, scorching heat and almost no plant life. However, deserts are far more diverse than that common image. Some desert regions ...