Fog nets turn Chile’s Atacama Desert into a salad bowl. In Chañaral, growers are using mesh 'fog catchers' to harvest up to 1,400 litres of water daily from coastal mist, enough to raise lettuce and lemon trees in the planet’s driest desert. Researchers will publish a national fog-water map to replicate the method across arid zones, reframing atmospheric moisture as a viable irrigation source. Reuters https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/chiles-atacama-worlds-driest-desert-growing-lettuces-with-fog-2025-06-24/?ref=fixthenews.com
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