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Flowers bloom on the desert in the Llanos de Challe national park, at the doors of the Atacama desert, USA. An exceptional year with a 50 mm rainfall helped the more than 200 species of autochthonous flowers, which don’t grow elsewhere, 14 of them in risk of extinction, to spread out a colorful blanket over the world’s driest desert
Photograph: Antoine Lassagne/AFP/Getty Images