POTOSÍ, Bolivia — A gentle breeze swept across Laguna Colorada, momentarily turning the magenta mineral lake water neon-orange as it rippled around the knobby knees of several dozen flamingos ...

Our journey to the highest desert in the world begins in Potosi, in southwestern Bolivia. At 12,000 feet above sea level, it is the highest city in the world.

The desert of southwest Bolivia is the highest in the world. We know it's a desert because there are very few plants around and the little precipitation they get comes in the form of . snow.

HIGH IN Bolivia’s Andes is a vast, surreal landscape of salt flats that stretch over more than 4,000 square miles. The salt crust of this high-country desert, the Salar de Uyuni, shimmers ...

La Paz, Dec 15 (EFE). — Bolivia’s second largest lake Poopo in the Andine region of the country is turning into a desert as a result of climate change, El Niño and La Niña phenomena and ...

Fly over the haunting Train Cemetery of Uyuni, Bolivia, where rusting locomotives stand abandoned in the vast salt flats. This eerie graveyard of trains, once part of Bolivia’s railway boom, now ...

Westfield State University biologist Jennifer Hanselman is 1 of 3 authors of the study published in the December issue of Global Change Biology.