Since early 1900s, with the beginning of mining operations and especially in the last decade, small, although repetitive spills of fuel oil had occurred frequently in the Chilean mining desert industry during reparation ...

Ground-based monitoring and remote sensing of extreme rain events in the hyperarid Atacama Desert, Chile, reveal a complex relationship between precipitation, soil types and interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) ...

Soils are heterogeneous and complex environments, and bacterial competition, cooperation, and communication dynamics there are mediated through the secretion of natural products (NPs) synthesized in specialized pathways ...

La provincia de Santa Cruz censaba, en 2010, una población de 274.000 habitantes repartidos en un cuarto de millón de km 2 , más del 95% con residencia en las 15 localidades de su sistema urbano, superando apenas la densidad ...

In South America (SA), Highlands above-treeline stretch along 7000 km in a North-South direction, occupying almost 694,000 km2, most of it is located in the Andean region except for 34,500 km2 in the Chaco region. In these ...

Streptomyces sp. strain C34, isolated from soil collected in the Chilean hyper-arid Atacama Desert, was cultured on different media, resulting in the isolation and identification of four new ansamycin-type polyketides. ...