Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A vast high plateau in the far northwest of Argentina, the Puna de Atacama is “how the planet looked before us, almost before ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Puna is Argentina’s empty quarter. In the country’s far north-west, these high windswept tablelands in the ...

In 2019 while launching a multidisciplinary research project aimed at developing the Puna de Atacama region as a natural laboratory, investigators within the University of Atacama (Chile) conducted a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An aerial picture of the lagoon and surrounding salt plain with microbial mounds visible beneath the water surface. A patchwork of ...

Scientists have discovered a previously hidden ecosystem with an expansive system of lagoons in the salt plains of Puna de Atacama, an arid plateau in Argentina — with giant stromatolites that could ...

The microbes, which appear to mimic early-stage life on Earth, could help scientists understand how life might form on other planets. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a ...

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A vast high plateau in the far northwest of Argentina, the Puna de Atacama is “how the planet looked before us, almost before anything, the Earth’s skeleton laid bare”, said Stanley Stewart in the ...

Researchers have discovered a jaw-dropping ecosystem of crystal-clear lagoons and salt plains in Argentina's Puna de Atacama desert that could offer a window onto early life on Earth and Mars. When ...