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780 The Atacama Desert in Chile has regions where no rainfall has ever been recorded in human history, yet a fog called camanchaca rolls in from the Pacific and feeds lichen colonies that exist nowhere else on Earth

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Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals · 07/06/2026 02:44 EDT

The Atacama Desert in Chile has regions where no rainfall has ever been recorded in human history, yet a fog called camanchaca rolls in from the Pacific and feeds lichen colonies that exist nowhere else on Earth

In the hyperarid core of Chile's Atacama Desert, weather stations have gone decades without recording a single drop of rain — yet a Pacific fog called the camanchaca sustains lichen communities found nowhere else on Earth.

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