In one of the most unforgiving environments on Earth ... blooming event is happening. This phenomenon, sometimes called a “desert bloom,” is filling sections of the Atacama with bright flowers.

High Desert rain this week comes just in time for spring bloom season. Here are the top places to photograph spring ...

Photographer: Paul Williams ‘this might be enough’ he said ‘to trigger an extremely rare event’ The first shoot for The Green Planet ... rare desert event. A wild flower bloom.

Flowers have a way of doing that. They began changing the way the world looked almost as soon as they appeared on Earth about 130 ... years before the first bloom appeared. As a food source ...

So began the first water cycle…And it rained so much that two thirds of our planet was ... And the plants colonized the surface of the Earth. Even in the driest deserts, they still carry a ...

In the center of the image, a gigantic bloom of photosynthetic algae ... He also writes Live Science's weekly Earth from space series. More about planet earth Greenland's ice sheet — the ...