It's like nowhere else on the planet. Tatsiana Volskaya/Getty Images Traveling to the Atacama Desert feels like stepping onto a different planet. There’s a reason for that — the soil here is ...

Brine pools from a lithium mine, that belongs US-based Albemarle Corp, is seen on the Atacama salt flat in the Atacama desert, Chile, Aug. 16, 2018. Ivan Alvarado/Reuters.

Center and right: Salt, a byproduct of the brine evaporation process, is piled up at the Albemarle lithium mine in the Atacama Desert on Aug. 24. Paz Olivares Droguett for NPR ...

ATACAMA DESERT, Chile — In the middle of the desert in northern Chile, massive pools of Caribbean blue water sit next to what appear to be snowdrifts. But this is a lithium mine. The pools are ...

The Atacama Desert of Chile is largely considered the driest place on Earth, but recently saw the moon-like landscape ...

SOUTH AMERICASAN PEDRO DE ATACAMA, Chile — I worship deserts. In my native New Zealand, a rain-free day is a small miracle, so my sodden soul soars when I feel that dry heat and behold those ...

The town of Peine, near the Salt flats and one of the closest towns to the lithium mining operations. 13th of April, 2024. ... a hilltop village deep in Chile's Atacama Desert, ...

This altiplano, or high plain, is part of the world’s highest and driest desert – but in moments like these, it easily vies for the most beautiful, too.. While Chile’s wild Patagonia region ...

ATACAMA DESERT, Chile — At the top of a craggy path in Socaire, a hilltop village deep in Chile's Atacama Desert, a black flag whips in the wind above Jeanette Cruz's house.