In 2026, El Niño rains turned Chile’s Atacama, Earth’s driest nonpolar desert, into a wildflower carpet of about 17,000 sq km ...

This year's exceptionally strong El Niño has brought a rare gift to Chile's Atacama Desert: rain. In one of the driest places on Earth, that rare moisture has awakened millions of seeds and bulbs that ...

Known as the driest nonpolar desert on Earth, a massive portion of the Atacama Desert has been covered in flowers after the El Niño weather pattern brought heavy rains to the region earlier this year.

The rain that flooded northern Chile in July has also set off what could be one of the largest desert blooms in decades, with the peak due in October.

Atacama Desert near Copiapo, Chile. Due to unusually heavy winter rainfall and climate conditions associated with El Nino, a large-scale bloom has recently appeared in the Atacama Desert in northern ...

Exceptionally heavy El Niño rains have awakened millions of seeds lying dormant underground, carpeting vast swathes of one of the planet's driest places with flowers. View on euronews ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A carpet of colorful flowers now covers vast stretches of the Atacama Desert in northern Chile (Javier TORRES) A resplendent ...

The world's driest desert has been transformed into a sea of flowers in a spectacular explosion of life driven by the rare Super El Niño.

Wednesday, October 21, 2026Memories of rain become flowers from beneath the sand.In October, when autumn grasses in Tokyo ...

The normally barren landscape of the Atacama region, the oldest continuously arid place in the world has been transformed this year, a gift from El Nino. Even though the cyclical warming of the El ...

THE ATACAMA DESERT, Chile (AP) — Spring has finally arrived in the Southern Hemisphere and, in Chile, even the desert is blossoming. Known as the driest nonpolar desert on Earth, a massive portion of ...