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#atacama — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #atacama, aggregated by home.social.

  1. It's one of the oldest and driest deserts in the world, is 5 times drier than the Sahara – and it's about to bloom with millions of flowers

    discoverwildlife.com/environme

    #nature #wildlife #atacama #chile

  2. It's one of the oldest and driest deserts in the world, is 5 times drier than the Sahara – and it's about to bloom with millions of flowers

    discoverwildlife.com/environme

    #nature #wildlife #atacama #chile

  3. It's one of the oldest and driest deserts in the world, is 5 times drier than the Sahara – and it's about to bloom with millions of flowers

    discoverwildlife.com/environme

    #nature #wildlife #atacama #chile

  4. It's one of the oldest and driest deserts in the world, is 5 times drier than the Sahara – and it's about to bloom with millions of flowers

    discoverwildlife.com/environme

    #nature #wildlife #atacama #chile

  5. It's one of the oldest and driest deserts in the world, is 5 times drier than the Sahara – and it's about to bloom with millions of flowers

    discoverwildlife.com/environme

    #nature #wildlife #atacama #chile

  6. 💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 💧☠️ In the Argentinian #Andes, San Antonio de los Cobres residents drink #water with #arsenic levels 20 times the safe limit.

    #Uppsala University researchers found they carry a #gene variant that turns arsenic into a form their bodies can safely flush out.

    👉 sciencealert.com/humans-in-the

    #argentina #evolution #genetics #naturalselection #dna #biology #science #sanantoniodeloscobres #atacama #health #medicine

  7. SkyFi's Satellite Image Confirms Massive Clothes Pile In Chile's Atacama Desert
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    skyfi.com/blog/skyfis-confirms <-- shared blog post
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    atmos.earth/atacama-desert-chi <-- shared media article
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    “The Atacama Desert: A Surprising Dumping Ground for Fast Fashion Leftovers
    Chile's Atacama Desert, the driest desert in the world, has been a dumping ground for fast fashion leftovers. A mountain of discarded clothing, including Christmas sweaters and ski boots, cuts a strange sight in the desert, which is increasingly suffering from pollution created by the fashion industry…"
    #gis #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #chile #atacama #atacamadesert #fastfashion #clothing #waster #dumpingground #fashion #fashionindustry #pollution #discarded #waste #overproduction #supplychain #nike #oldnavy #hugoboss #chanel #hm