Chile’s new national park offers a glimpse of life in the cosmos. Following a rare superbloom event, Desierto Florido National Park was created to safeguard nearly 200 flower species—and many ...

Chilean Bellflower (Lapageria rosea) The National flower of Chile, this shade-loving climbing plant is a fantastic climber with large pendant red to white waxy bells, and leathery leaves on a ...

See One of Earth’s Driest Places Experience Rare Flower Boom. The Atacama Desert in Chile is so dry that some areas have never recorded rainfall.

The Atacama Desert is the driest desert on earth, however a rare blossoming of flowers here has encouraged Chile to create its 44th national park.

One of the driest places on Earth has blossomed after some unusual rain earlier this year. The Atacama Desert, primarily located in Chile along the Pacific Ocean, is flush with flowers after ...

Large swaths of the Atacama desert, the driest on the planet, have been covered with purple and white flowers after unusual rainfall patterns in northern Chile.

However, the park is unlikely to cover the entire desert, which stretches over 41,000 square miles between Chile’s Pacific coast and the Andes. No date has been set yet for the formal designation.

Chile said on Saturday it is creating a vast national park to protect hundreds of glaciers that are melting due to climate change. The new National Glacier Park will cover 75,000 hectares of Andes ...

Chile's Atacama Desert has turned into a mauve-coloured carpet of flowers following a downpour of rain from the country's north that has seen the normally arid region turn to a psychedelic ...

ABOVE: Thanks to heavy flooding, a field of flowers now exists in what was once a barren part of Chile. Recent floods that caused devastation in northern Chile have had another, more positive ...