# This Desert May Contain Secrets To Avoiding Climate Famine

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/this-desert-may-contain-secrets-to-avoiding-climate-famine/
- Published: 2021-11-03T10:00:02-05:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Photo: Panoramic view of the Tara Cathedrals (left) and the Tara salt flat in the Atacama Desert, northern Chile (February 7, 2016). Photo by Diego Delso via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Article by Alexander C. Kaufman. HuffPost – November 1, 2021. From space, South America’s Atacama Desert looks like a craggy patch of lifeless brown stretching 49,000 square miles near Chile’s northern tip. At 7,900 feet above sea level, the parched, windswept landscape broils under the sun. It’s the world’s oldest and driest desert. […] Click here to view original web page at www.huffpost.com