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World’s driest desert puts on fleeting flower show

LLANOS DE CHALLE NATIONAL PARK, Chile — A rare bloom in Chile's Atacama Desert has briefly transformed one of the world's driest places into a dazzling carpet of fuchsia-colored wildflowers. The arid region — considered the driest nonpolar desert on Earth, averaging around 0.08 inches of ...

La Nina back but maybe with lesser effects

WASHINGTON — La Nina, the cooler and at times costlier flip side of El Nino, has arrived to warp weather worldwide, meteorologists said Thursday. This natural weather phenomenon often turbocharges the Atlantic hurricane season, but this La Nina may be too weak and fleeting to cause much ...