A volunteer at Texas’ Big Bend National Park spotted bright red blooms after rain in a remote stretch of desert, leading to the discovery.
In Alto Hospicio, "fog harvesting" could generate between 0.2 and 5 liters of water per square meter each day.
Water harvesting from foggy air provided up to 5 liters of water a day in a yearlong Chilean desert experiment.
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Outside of a handful of valleys in Antarctica, the Atacama is the driest place on Earth. The inhospitable landscape of sand, ...
This story was originally published by Grist with the headline Droughts are getting worse. Is fog-farming a fix? on Feb 20, ...
A field study spanning a year showed that water collected from fog could ease water scarcity affecting vulnerable populations living in Chile’s Atacama Desert ...
Progress comes at an ecological cost: flying wildlife, particularly birds and bats, face collision risks as wind farms expand.
A research team led by Prof. Huang Zhenying from the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has discovered a remarkable survival strategy—a unique seed dormancy cycling mechanism ...
Carolina Panozo travels everywhere with plants and animals from her native region of Antofagasta in the Atacama Desert of ...
This hot desert area has not seen rain in five centuries and it’s so dry it’s gained a reputation for its record-breaking ...
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