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Americas / Chile · Environment

Chile's Atacama Desert blooms after El Niño rains

Rank
Running
36h
Updated
18h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
5
Regions
1
Countries
3
Languages
3

SVT Sweden · Swedish 10 Oct, 14:57 UTC

The first outlet on the story

Read it also in Čeština (2) · Slovenčina (2) · +1 language

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 5 after 37 hours.

2 4 6
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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: SVT, 10 Oct, 14:57 UTC.
  2. Second country: Slovakia, with TA3.
  3. Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 11 Oct, 07:36 UTC.
  4. Now: 5 outlets.

Where it travelled

37 of 37 hours

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The 3 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

100%

  • Europe 5 outlets · 3 countries · 100%

First movers

  1. SVT 10 Oct, 14:57 UTC
  2. TA3 +16h 39m
  3. Hospodárske noviny +16h 50m
  4. iDNES +16h 51m
  5. Seznam Zprávy +17h 41m

The figures

Coverage
5 outlets in 3 countries, 1 of them trade press. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 5 outlets, 1 public-service, 4 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Europe 3: Czechia, Slovakia, Sweden. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
Czech, Slovak, Swedish.
Timeline
Earliest article SVT, 10 Oct 2026, 14:57 UTC. First seen 10 Oct 2026, 15:10 UTC. Last seen 11 Oct 2026, 08:38 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region Americas, Chile. Topic Environment. Hard news Judged not hard news. Left off the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
0.12, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
11 Oct 2026 263 3.09 5 3 4 2 4.7

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Started 10 Oct, 15:10 UTC · Updated 11 Oct, 08:38 UTC

Covered by 5 outlets

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  • Seznam Zprávy Czechia 11 Oct, 08:38 UTC
    Fotky: Atacama ožila. Nejsušší místo na Zemi se proměnilo v květinový ráj
  • iDNES Czechia 11 Oct, 07:49 UTC
    Nejsušší místo světa? Poušť Atacama po vydatných deštích rozkvetla
  • Hospodárske noviny Slovakia 11 Oct, 07:47 UTC
    Najsuchšia púšť sveta sa zmenila na nepoznanie. Vyprahnutá Atacama vďaka dažďom zakvitla
  • TA3 Slovakia 11 Oct, 07:36 UTC
    Jedno z najsuchších miest na Zemi ukazuje novú tvár. Zásluhou javu El Niño sa krajina premenila na rozkvitnutý raj
  • SVT Sweden 10 Oct, 14:57 UTC
    Här blommar öknen – efter El Niño-regn
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