The driest deserts, such as Chile's Atacama Desert ... trees and shrubs and replacing them with fast-growing grasses. Many desert plants can live for hundreds of years. But in California, the ...

The Atacama is the world’s driest non-polar desert – a landscape so vast and ... bronze is regularly broken by a pop of lush green grass or a cobalt lagoon. Guanacos, native wild camelids ...

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 ...