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PHOTOS: Amazing Photos Of Chile's Atacama Desert

Posted 12.16.2011

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That the vast Atacama Desert of northern Chile is the world's driest place is hardly news: One city there, Arica, famously went 14 years without a dro...

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WATCH: Amazing Time-Lapse Of Southern Hemisphere Sky

The Huffington Post | Timothy Stenovec | Posted 12.11.2011

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Astrophotographer Stéphane Guisard, renown for his images and time-lapse videos of the night sky, last month released a spectacular video taken ...

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NASA IMAGES: 32 Inches Of Snow Cover Driest Place On Earth

The Huffington Post | Steven Hoffer | Posted 09.21.2011

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Extreme weather is in the air. The following satellite photo shows South America's Atacama Desert region -- known as one of the driest places on Ea...

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How My Father Survived Chile's Mines

Stacy Torres | Posted 05.25.2011

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Stacy Torres

Until recently the dangers my father described seemed a relic of Chile's distant past.

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Trapped Chilean Miners Speak To Loved Ones In Emotional New Video

Posted 05.25.2011

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(AP) SAN JOSE MINE, Chile -- A new video of 33 men trapped in a mine under Chile's Atacama Desert shows them sending greetings to their families, tal...

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"I Don't Want to Die in Chile:" Swine Flu in the Desert

Sally Thorner | Posted 11.17.2011

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Sally Thorner

My son came down with H1N1 when we were on vacation in Chile. It is not an exaggeration to say I have never been so terrified in my life.

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How Extremophiles Might Help Us Save the World

Levi Novey | Posted 05.25.2011

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Levi Novey

Living and thriving in the most inhospitable conditions on Earth, tiny bacteria-like microbes known as extremophiles might soon have an over-sized effect on our human world.

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