Chile’s Atacama Desert: one of the driest places on Earth.
Chile’s Atacama Desert: one of the driest places on Earth.
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Deserts are the strangest places on Earth.
I spent my undergraduate years at an isolated college town that sat on the fringes of a vast, interior desert. To the northwest, the great Rocky Mountains began their ascent; directly west lay No Man’s Land, but the Sun’s; to the south, the flats gradually lifted into ancient atolls, red gorges, and rock. As a native woodland creature, this dryland seemed to me like another planet. (more…)
