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Mario Segovia and Orlando Rojas, members of the Atacama fog catcher group, check a hydroponic lettuce crop produced with water captured by fog catchers, meshes suspended between two poles that intercept small bits of moisture to collect water from the air in the Atacama Desert, in Chanaral, Chile June 10, 2025. Photo: Reuters/Pablo Sanhueza

In Chile’s Atacama, world’s driest desert, growing lettuces with fog

By Reuters, Rodrigo Gutierrez June 24, 2025

In Chile's arid Atacama, the driest desert in the world, growers and researchers are looking to harness water from the very air itself to grow lettuces and lemons, using a net to catch drops of moisture from fog.