Rare Rainfall in the Atacama Is Deadly for Its Tiniest Inhabitants
When you purchase through links on our situation , we may earn an affiliate commission . Here ’s how it works . In the summer of 2017 , after a junkie rainfall , strange lagoons appeared in the oldest and driest desert on Earth — the Atacama . In an area that unremarkably obtain less than a half - inch of precipitation per annum , the temporary haven should have been a boon to desert life — but , alas , they were n’t ....