Rare storms covered huge stretches of Chile’s Atacama Desert in snow and dumped extraordinary amounts of rain on one of the driest regions on Earth. The extreme weather shut down observatories, triggered damaging floods and mudflows, and unfolded against the backdrop of a strengthening El Niño.
Source: ScienceDaily | Natural Disasters
ScienceDaily | Natural Disasters
- Earth may have lost the Sun’s protective shield millions of years ago
- A massive plume deep beneath Africa is pulling the continent apart
- One of Earth’s driest places was just covered in snow
- Hundreds of hidden earthquakes found at Antarctica’s Doomsday Glacier
- The next Cascadia megaquake could hit Oregon harder than expected
- Forces deep inside Earth helped Antarctica freeze before the Arctic
- Europe’s wildfires became so intense they created their own storm
- Superheated magma may power towering lava fountains
- Earth’s hidden “gold kitchen” lies beneath the seafloor
- One of Earth’s most explosive supervolcanoes is recharging with fresh magma
