What can we learn about human resilience from communities living in the Atacama?

Apr 27, 2019 ... I was really excited to see the desert and go to one of the driest places in the world! San Pedro de Atacama is the town to base yourself to explore the desert. Jun 23, 2017 ... Hornby's Storm-Petrels Have Found a Home in the Driest Place on the Planet ... In Chile, a group of volunteer birders found the first-ever ... Nov 6, 2024 ... Known as the driest non-polar desert in the world, the Atacama Desert is a place where rain is almost a myth, with some areas going decades ... Jan 29, 2021 ... The Atacama Desert is located in a zone called the “shadow of rain”. This is determined by its geographical location: between the Andes mountain ... May 13, 2018 ... It looked like a gigantic piece of sandpaper. While the composition of the Uyuni flats is primarily salt, the salt flat in the Atacama is a mix ... Dec 19, 2016 ... The Coldest, Driest, Most Remote Place on Earth Is the Best Place to Build a Radio Telescope · This remote Antarctic field station is an ice- ... Feb 25, 2022 ... The Atacama is the driest place on earth, other than the poles. It receives less than 1 mm of precipitation each year, and some areas haven't seen a drop of ... However, the amount of pressure exerted on the surface by air is not equal everywhere because of differences in heating across the Earth. ... place in Antarctica. Jul 18, 2011 ... ESPM scientist Ronald Amundson and his colleagues are using field research and chemical techniques to determine how old the desert is, ... Dec 26, 2023 ... Stromatolites are microbial communities that fossilize into giant rocks through the photosynthesis of cyanobacteria. Scientists think the ...