This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image features salt flats and lakes in southwest Bolivia, near the crest of the Andes Mountains. Acquired in April 2024, this false-color image shows part of the Oruro ...

Both technologies demonstrated that they apply to the characteristics of the two salt flats, with a lithium recovery rate of over 80%. A statement from the Bolivian subsidiary of the Russian firm ...

An curved arrow pointing right. At a staggering 4,086 square miles, Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni is the biggest salt flat in the world. During the rainy season, it essentially turns into a giant mirror.

In the heart of southern Bolivia lies a mysterious train graveyard, where the skeletons of British steam locomotives and rail cars rust away on the edge of the world's largest salt flats.

Skate pros Madars Apse, Wes Kremer, Leo Romero and the local rippers take on the final two challenges.

According to Arce, the project involving Russia's Uranium One company regarding direct lithium extraction in Bolivian salt flats “must start operating in 2025” while that company and the state ...

Dionicio Colque, 42, has fond memories of growing up on the edge of Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia. It’s the world’s largest salt ...

To declare that the salt flat would become the epicenter of Bolivia’s economic revolution was to signal that jobs and deliverance from hardship would at long last come to the country’s ...

In southwest Bolivia, the world’s largest salt flats sit atop a vast pool of brine on the Salar de Uyuni. Ivan Kashinsky and Karla Gachet Whenever I handle salt—to season food, pickle ...

Until we start sending commercial flights to the moon, the Kachi Lodge on Bolivia’s Uyuni Salt Flats might be the most otherworldly vacation you can take. Opened in May at the foot of a volcano ...