“We have many places like this in the desert,” said Jean Karla Zambrana, a co-founder of the desert dressed in clothes, a ...

This story originally appeared on Grist and was copublished with El País. It’s reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A Spanish-language version can be read here. Reporting was ...

Some 39,000 tonnes of old clothing is said to be dumped in Chile's Atacama Desert every year If you have ever taken old clothes to a recycling bank, be it in the UK or North America, there is a real ...

Stories about fast fashion dumping grounds usually show the fashion graveyards in countries like Ghana. But, unfortunately, dumping grounds can be found all over the world. A northern section of the ...

Researchers in Chile are launching a project to combat water scarcity in the Atacama Desert by setting up fog collectors in and around Alto Hospicio. These fog collectors will be used in practical ...

Panoramic view of Alto Hospicio, located in Chile's Atacama desert, one of the driest places in the world. Credit: Dr Virginia Carter Gamberini. With less annual rainfall than 1 mm per year, Chile’s ...