EditorialFILE PHOTO: An aerial view shows the brine pools and processing areas of the SQM lithium mine on the Atacama salt flat, in the Atacama desert of northern Chile
EditorialPatricio Jones, an electronics engineer, with the du Pont Telescope at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, March 8, 2023. (Marcos Zegers/The New York Times)
EditorialAn aerial view of evaporation ponds at a lithium plant in the Atacama Desert of Chile, an essential component of batteries that is mined from the country’s salt flats, Dec. 15, 2021. (Marcos ZegersThe New York Times)
EditorialCap with Feathers, Arica, 10th14th century, Chile, San Pedro de Atacama desert, Arica, Wool, feathers, H. 4 1/8 x Diam. 6 in. (10.5 x 15.2 cm), Textiles-Featherwork.
EditorialLarus modestus, Print, The grey gull (Leucophaeus modestus) is a medium-sized gull native to South America. Unusual among gulls, it breeds inland in the extremely dry Atacama Desert in northern Chile, although it is present as a non-breeding bird along...
EditorialGuerra del Pac?fico o Guerra del Guano o Salitre. Conflicto que enfrent? a Chile contra sus aliados Bolivia y Per?. Se desarroll? en el Pac?fico y desierto de Atacama, 1879-1883. Salida de los s?bditos chilenos tras el desbloqueo del puerto de Iquique ...