World's Driest Desert Was Once Transformed Into a Fertile Oasis by Bird Poop

World's Driest Desert Was Once Transformed Into a Fertile Oasis by Bird Poop
ScienceAlert
1/30/2021
© Moon Valley), Atacama Desert. (Ignacio Palacios/Getty Images
Valle de la luna
The Atacama Desert has a fearsome reputation. The world's driest non-polar desert, located along the Pacific coast of northern Chile, constitutes a hyperarid, Mars-like environment – one so extreme that when it rains in this parched place, it can bring death instead of life.
Yet life, even in the Atacama Desert, finds a way. The archaeological record shows that this hyperarid region supported agriculture many hundreds of years ago – crops that somehow thrived to feed the pre-Columbian and pre-Inca peoples who once lived here.

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