Chile's Atacama desert turns to fog harvesting – A lifeline for some of the world’s driest cities
Scientists estimate fog nets could collect up to 10 liters of water per square meter daily during peak months.
How one community in Chile is blessed and cursed with lithium
Chile is the world's second-largest lithium producer. It has been a welcome boon to the economy, but local community members ...
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Fog Harvesting Is Making It Possible To Get Water In One Of The Driest Places In The World: The Atacama Desert
One of the driest places in the world is Chile’s Atacama Desert. It receives less than a millimeter of rainfall […] ...
Scientists Want to Farm Fog to Solve the Water Crisis
Researchers may have just found a way to establish a renewable water resource in one of the driest places in the world. Using ...
In the driest place on Earth, water hides in plain sight
Outside of a handful of valleys in Antarctica, the Atacama is the driest place on Earth. The inhospitable landscape of sand, ...
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Droughts are getting worse. Is fog-farming a fix?
The city of Alto Hospicio, in Chile’s Atacama Desert, is one of the driest places on Earth. And yet its population of 140,000 ...
This exoplanet has weather never before seen in the universe
Scientists say they are rethinking how the weather works after creating a 3D map of an exoplanet 900 light-years away and discovering a world with jet streams fueling wild storms.
Scientists Are Pulling Fresh Water From Fog – And It’s Changing Everything
Scientists in Chile are proving that even in the driest desert, water can be captured from the air. By setting up mesh ...
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Fog harvesting could ease water shortages in the world’s driest places
Fog harvesting may provide a crucial water source for people living in some of the planet’s driest regions. By capturing ...
Why A 9-Million-Year-Old Great White Shark Ancestor Was Found In A Desert—A Biologist Explains
One might assume that marine fossils are exclusively unearthed in sedimentary coastal or underwater deposits. This is far ...
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Scientists turn fog into fresh water with new tech, fuel hope for driest regions
Researchers have shown that fog harvesting can provide a sustainable water source for vulnerable communities in Chile's arid ...
Want a workout? Try walking to the top of the world's largest telescope (photo)
The world's largest telescope continues to take shape on the Cerro Armazones mountain in Chile's Atacama Desert.