When the Desert Couldn't Help But Bloom

Every few years, something miraculous happens in Chile's Atacama Desert — the driest place on Earth. After an unexpected rainfall, the barren, cracked ground that hasn't seen moisture in years suddenly erupts with millions of wildflowers. Pink, purple, yellow, white — an explosion of color across a landscape everyone had written off as dead. In 2015, an unusually heavy rain triggered one of the most spectacular blooms in recorded history.…