The Atacama Desert in northern Chile holds two ghost towns called Humberstone and Santa Laura. Once home to thousands, they were abandoned in the 1960s when the saltpeter industry collapsed. Today, ...

SANTIAGO, Chile – Flames from one of Chile's worst wildfires completely consumed the town of Santa Olga as the death toll from the blazes since November rose to 10, officials said Thursday. The flames ...

An entire town has been consumed by flames as Chile witnesses worst wildfire in country's modern history. Flames has completely destroyed the town of Santa Olga as the death toll from the blazes since ...

Flames from one of Chile's worst wildfires completely consumed the town of Santa Olga. (AFP) Santiago, Chile: Flames from one of Chile's worst wildfires completely consumed the town of Santa Olga as ...

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — The Calbuco volcano erupted Wednesday for the first time in more than 42 years, billowing a huge ash cloud over a sparsely populated, mountainous area in southern Chile.

CHUQUICAMATA, Chile -- Living in the middle of one of the world's driest deserts, between a mile-high pile of rubble and a smoke-spewing refinery, is not everybody's idea of bliss. But the 2,500 ...