Outside of a handful of valleys in Antarctica, the Atacama is the driest place on Earth. The inhospitable landscape of sand, bare rock, and salt flats is so extreme and otherworldly that it’s used as ...

The Gobi Desert you see now is a product of both geological forces (like plate collisions) and atmospheric conditions (such as rain shadow effects). When picturing deserts, most of us immediately ...

is known as a “rain shadow,” and it can produce some of the driest conditions on earth — some weather stations in the Atacama Desert in Chile, downwind of the Andes, have never recorded any ...

Gusty winds on Wednesday will help keep us dry, but a band of heavy rain and snow will move in Wednesday night, with more expected Thursday.