For the first time in a decade, plants in the Atacama Desert have started flowering in the middle of winter, covering a portion of the driest desert on the planet in white and violet hues.

The "desierto florido" (flowering desert) phenomenon usually occurs every five to seven years when rains cause buried seeds to germinate and flower. But this bloom comes just two years after a a ...

The Atacama is the world’s driest non-polar desert – a landscape so vast and arid that Nasa practices Mars expeditions there. So when a carpet of purple flowers began poking through the earth ...

“The disappearance of this ornate, almost luminous flower went unnoticed as cattle trampled our desert grasslands into a struggling remnant of what they once were,” said Michael Robinson, a senior ...

It was one that Ben had been waiting a long time to study - a wild flower bloom. This could be the first in these dunes for decades. A rare snowfall in the Sonoran desert, January 2019.

“The global extinction crisis is hitting home right here in the Mojave Desert, and we’re fighting back to save this special little flower.” White-margined penstemon (Penstemon albomarginatus). Photo ...