Chile's Atacama Desert Blossoms with Life After El Niño Rains
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More than 200 species always expect, underground, that water will help them germinate; this year, the phenomenon covered everything in multiple colors
Air view shows car on the road surrounded by flowers in the Atacama desert, near Copiapó, Chile, on September 18, 2026. Javier Torres/AFP A colorful and unusual mantle of flowers covers the Atacama desert, one of the most arid places on Earth, after the climate phenomenon El Niño caused abundant winter rains in northern Chile. Under the desert soil, millions of seeds and bulbs of about 200 species are hidden throughout the year waiting for preci…
The exceptional rains caused by the meteorological phenomenon El Nino in the north of Chile have transformed the Atacama Desert into a vast carpet of flowers, which could represent one of the most important "flowered desert" events ever observed, reports the France Presse agency on Tuesday. In the soil of this desert, one of the most arid on Earth, ...
The phenomenon known as “flower desert” transformed large areas of northern Chile. Flowering could reach some 15,000 hectares in October. The news The Atacama desert was covered with flowers after heavy rains was first published in Sin Mordaza.
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