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fromwww.bbc.com
6 days ago

How the rise of green tech is feeding another environmental crisis

Raquel Celina Rodriguez observes that the once lush Vega de Tilopozo is now dry, highlighting the stark impact of climate change on the region's landscape and ecology.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Mining companies are pumping seawater into the driest place on Earth. But has the damage been done?

Mining activities in northern Chile are depleting local water resources and harming ecosystems, despite claims of sustainability by industry leaders.
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Fashion & style
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 months ago

Calvin Klein jeans for free! Branded clothes dumped in the desert snapped up on anti-fast fashion website

Bastian Barria's initiative highlights the global textile waste crisis by re-selling discarded clothing from the Atacama Desert for free, emphasizing awareness and change.
Fashion & style
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 months ago

Calvin Klein jeans for free! Branded clothes dumped in the desert snapped up on anti-fast fashion website

Bastian Barria's initiative highlights the global textile waste crisis by re-selling discarded clothing from the Atacama Desert for free, emphasizing awareness and change.
Law
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 months ago

A cacti-smuggling case with a prickly end: the novel way courts are making poachers pay

Chile's Atacama desert is experiencing an increase in succulent smuggling, negatively impacting biodiversity and prompting new legal approaches to conservation.
Los Angeles
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 months ago

Chile's perfect skies for stargazing under threat from giant chemical plant

The Atacama desert's dark skies are threatened by an industrial-scale green hydrogen project near key observatories.
fromwww.npr.org
5 months ago

How one community in Chile is blessed and cursed with lithium

"Our life is contained in that water, the day it dries up, we're dead as a culture, and we will have to leave."
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