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Atacama DesertArchive of news articles on external web sites. For mongabay-specific articles, please see http://www.mongabay.com/xml-list.html
Trekking the Atacama desert - Sep 12, 2008 Times Online,Aiming to cross from there to Argentina by van and on foot, we acclimatised first in the Atacama desert, a region I had longed to see for much of my life. Volkswagen newsletter - Sep 26, 2008 Motorsport.com,In addition to hard and stony sections at the beginning of the rally, the passage through the Atacama desert is on the agenda - the driest desert of the Mining giant BHP Billiton to build $3.5 billion water plant in Chile - Sep 6, 2008 The Canadian Press,...filed a request to build the plant and two 180-kilometre pipelines that would carry water from the Pacific Ocean to the mine in Chile's Atacama Desert, New British consul is here to stay - Sep 25, 2008 Portugal Resident,...“While I was working a in a hotel in the Atacama desert I had to deal with many serious issues and collaborated heavily with local entities. Meetings to assess telescope project - Sep 25, 2008 Honolulu Star-Bulletin,If built in Chile, it would stand on Cerro Armazones, a mountain in the Atacama Desert in the north. An environmental impact statement already written for SPACE PHOTOS THIS WEEK: Thousand-Ruby Galaxy, More - Sep 2, 2008 National Geographic,The image was captured by the ESO/MPG 2.2-meter (7.2 feet) telescope in Chile's arid mountainous Atacama Desert on August 25. UV radiation, created by BHP to build Minera Escondida Limitada desalination plant - Sep 15, 2008 Water Desalination Report (subscription),...and the project will include two 180km (112 mile) pipelines to transport the water to the mine in the Atacama Desert at an elevation of 3200m (10500 ft). Chile's Larache to launch luxury suites - Sep 12, 2008 Luxury Travel magazine,Hotel de Larache, Atacama Desert, Chile, is launching four guest suites as part of renovations set to be completed by 15 September. Chile mummies go on show - Sep 4, 2008 CCTV,The remains have been preserved by the bone-dry Atacama Desert, and an elaborate funerary treatment. The exhibition us entitled "Arica, a thousand-year-old ESO Captures Spiral Galaxy Messier 83 - Sep 2, 2008 RedOrbit,Located nearly 2400 m above sea level, atop the mountains of the Atacama Desert, ESO's La Silla enjoys some of the clearest and darkest skies on the whole NRAO welcomes new Head of the North American ALMA Science Center - Sep 23, 2008 Space Ref (press release)...a powerful new international astronomical facility under construction in the high-altitude Atacama Desert of northeastern Chile. 2008-09-25 08:21:03 - Chile Food and Drink Report Q3 2008 - a new ... - Sep 24, 2008 PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung),In addition the country’s relative geographical isolation, thanks to the Andes Mountains in the east and Atacama Desert in the west, means that is free of Chilean Ensemble Brings Soothing Sounds to Trinity - Sep 16, 2008 Trinity Tripod (subscription),Named for the Atacama Desert in the Andes mountain range in Chile, the Atacama Ensemble performs folk music from the Andes region of South America. High in Andes, World's Next Super Scope Takes Shape: First Look - Sep 18, 2008 Popular Mechanics,By Paul Tolmé CHAJNANTOR PLAIN, Chile — Sixteen thousand five hundred feet up into the Andes, deep inside the Atacama Desert, lies this barren, CV Srikant, General manager, SQM - Sep 3, 2008 Economic Times,One of our company’s USPs is that SQM derives its raw materials from natural deposits, the Caliche ore, in the Atacama Desert in Chile in a process NASA Humanist Chris Mckay: Where Darwinism Fails - Sep 16, 2008 Scoop.co.nz,Perchlorate is an oxidizing form of chlorine and we do find it in deserts on Earth, for example the Atacama desert in Chile. Perchlorates are not bad for Pulsating Stars Enable New Precise Determination Of Rotation Of ... - Sep 19, 2008 Science Daily (press release)...with the high precision HARPS spectrograph, attached to the 3.6-m ESO telescope at La Silla, 2400 m up in the mountains of the Chilean Atacama Desert. Sustainability Summary Report 2008 - Sep 23, 2008 Sydney Morning Herald,Link to `Our Charter' at www.bhpbilliton.com/aboutus/charter BHP BIllITOn SuSTAInABIlITy SuMMAry rEPOrT 2008 - 7 Atacama Desert | Northern Chile Operator New Racing Lancer for new-look Dakar Rally - Sep 22, 2008 Scoop.co.nz (press release),Beginning in Buenos Aires, the 9000km circuit traverses the rugged Atacama Desert and the Andes before returning to its starting point in the Argentinian Mitsubishi to unleash Racing Lancer in Dakar - Sep 13, 2008 Jamaica Gleaner,This will take them north to the Atacama Desert, then back across the Andes and into Argentina again. After a stopover in Argentina's second-biggest city, Digging In - Sep 2, 2008 CFO.com Magazine,Consider its Maricunga open-pit mine, located high in Chile's Atacama Desert, nearly three miles above sea level. In the summer, winds whip in excess of 60 Four 'Racing Lancer' will spearhead Mitsubishi's bid to claim ... - Sep 8, 2008 MarketWatch...with competition resuming the following day, taking them north to the Atacama Desert, then back across the Andes and into Argentina again. Telescope concerns acknowledged - Aug 29, 2008 Honolulu Advertiser,From there it's a two-hour drive through the Atacama Desert, the driest spot on Earth. The Chilean mountain is 10500 feet high, while the Mauna Kea site is NRDC: NUCLEAR POWER MAKES NO SENSE FOR CHILE - Aug 28, 2008 Patagonia Times,...“Even if you converted a very small part of the Atacama (desert) to solar-thermal generation, an area I calculate at about 36 square kilometers, September Science Picks — Leads, Feeds and Story Seeds - Sep 17, 2008 United States Geological Survey (press release),Scientists recently monitored two caves in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile and identified the conditions under which they were detectable in thermal Enjoy Disney's Earth adventure for free! - Sep 11, 2008 Irish Independent,Did you know the world has about 10000 different grasses or that the Atacama Desert in South America has had no rain for 400 years? Wyler Genève Official Timekeeper of the Dakar - Sep 11, 2008 Jewelers Circular Keystone Online,...for a 9000km challenge from the Argentinean capital Buenos Aires to Valparaiso in Chile and back again, taking on the Andes and the Atacama desert. Milky Way Look-Alike: The Thousand-Ruby Galaxy - Sep 3, 2008 Examiner.comThe WFI is part of the 2.2-metre Max-Planck Society/ESO telescope at La Silla, located on the mountains of the Atacama Desert. Dakar 2008 - Coronel brothers to race in Dakar - Sep 3, 2008 alpha-2.info,Chile's Atacama Desert will be the toughest challenge for the competitors while the three final stages will be held around Cordoba in Argentina. New Book: "Flying to Extremes - A Polar First" - Sep 1, 2008 Rotorhub (press release),From the searing heat of the Atacama desert through the turbulent high Andes, over the hostile southern oceans and finally to the freezing polar regions, Red-planet puzzle - Sep 1, 2008 Louisville Courier-Journal,On Earth, perchlorate is found most abundantly in the surface soils of Chile's Atacama Desert, which coincidentally has long served as a Martian stand-in Interview: Barbara Broccoli And Michael G. Wilson On 'Quantum of ... - Aug 28, 2008 CommanderBond.net,Pinewood Studios near London, and at exotic locations around the world—Panama City and Colon in Panama, the Atacama Desert in Chile, Siena, Lake Garda, BHP Billiton Seeks To Build $3.5B Water Desalinization Plant At ... - Sep 7, 2008 Trading Markets (press release),BHP filed a request to build the plant and two 110-mile pipelines that would carry water from the Pacific Ocean to the mine in Chile's Atacama Desert. Oschersleben: Series newsletter - Aug 29, 2008 Motorsport.com,The 2009 Dakar Rally will be held in Argentina and Chile; Chile's Atacama desert will be the toughest challenge for the competitors while the three final [an error occurred while processing this directive] archives | news | XML / RSS feed | featured
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