El Niño transforms Chile's Atacama Desert as thousands of hectares bloom
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What happened
Exceptionally heavy El Niño rains have awakened millions of seeds lying dormant underground, blanketing vast swathes of one of the planet's driest regions with flowers.
Summary assembled by rule from the sources below