The Atacama Desert in Chile contains weather stations that have never recorded a single drop of rain in more than a century of measurement, yet a thin fog called camanchaca rolls in from the Pacific often enough that lichens and cacti pull moisture straight from the air
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At weather stations scattered across the interior of Chile’s Atacama Desert, the rain gauges have sat empty for so long that some meteorological records show years, even decades, of continuous zeros. The instruments work. The technicians visit. The pages are turned. The number does not change.
And yet the desert is not lifeless. Cacti stand in ranks along ridges that have never been watered from above. Lichens the colour of oxidised copper crust the north-facing rocks. Something is keeping
And yet the desert is not lifeless. Cacti stand in ranks along ridges that have never been watered from above. Lichens the colour of oxidised copper crust the north-facing rocks. Something is keeping
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