After thousands of rare Chilean cacti were found in the house of an Italian collector, a years-long trial slowly unravelled ...

The desert sun ... A football court, paid by lithium companies, in the indiginous community of Peine, the closest town to the lithium mining operations, in the Atacama Salt Flat on Saturday ...

The hundreds of thousands of people living in fast-growing, densely populated cities in the Atacama Desert are especially at risk. Much of the groundwater in the region is siphoned off for mining ...

The Atacama Desert in northern Chile sits in the rain ... 140,000 people (up from fewer than 100,000 in 2012) amid a lithium mining boom. Fresh water comes from an underground aquifer, which ...

By harvesting moisture from the air, they argue, we could provide vulnerable communities in Chile’s Atacama desert with much ... in agriculture or mining. Based on an average annual water ...

ATACAMA DESERT, Chile — At the top of a craggy path ... the Indigenous Lickanantay people's resistance to the lithium mining that many say is tearing their communities apart.