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Easter Island rebounds from wildfire that singed its statues

December 17, 20221064 Views

The hillside of Rano Raraku volcano on Rapa Nui feels like a place that froze in time. Embedded in grass and volcanic rock, almost 400 moai – the monolithic human figures carved centuries ago by this remote Pacific island’s Rapanui people -- remained untouched until recently. Some are buried from the neck down, the heads seemingly observing their surroundings from the underground. Around them, there has been a pervasive smell of smoke from still-smoldering vegetation – the vestige of a wildfire that broke out in early October. More than 100 moai were damaged by the flames, many of them blackened by soot, though the impact on the stone remains undetermined. UNESCO recently allocated nearly $100,000 for assessment and repair plans. The sun rises behind a line of moai statues on Ahu...

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On Easter Island, burned Moai statues are a symbol of growing tensions

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December 7, 2022616 Views

Charred Moai stone statues on Easter Island, singed in a wildfire earlier this year, are signs of a growing tension between landowners and conservationists in this tiny, remote island in the middle of the Pacific. The island, which has been a Chilean territory since the 1880s, is known by its indigenous inhabitants as Rapa Nui and is famed for its huge monolithic human figures carved centuries ago by their ancestors. The 164-square-kilometer island - slightly smaller than Brooklyn - has seen tension grow in recent years between old families who want to raise cattle on their ancestral lands and authorities focused on conservation. Horses graze next to the the Moais at Ahu Tongariki archaeological site in Rapa Nui, Easter Island, Chile November 15, 2022. REUTERS/Pablo Sanhueza O...

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What is the secret behind spectacular blooms in world’s driest desert!

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October 25, 2022208 Views

Invisible to human eyes, diversity in flower color and patterning is even greater for pollinators The Atacama Desert, which stretches for approximately 1,600 km along the western coast of the cone of South America, is the driest place on Earth. Some weather stations there have never recorded rainfall throughout their existence. But it‘s far from barren: many species live here that occur nowhere else, adapted to its extreme conditions. And approximately every five to 10 years, from September to mid-November, the Atacama hosts one of the most spectacular sights of the natural world: the ‘desierto florido’ (literally ‘blooming desert’). These mass blooms, one of which is currently going on in the northern Atacama after abundant rainfall earlier this year, often attract media attention fro...

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Chile’s Easter Island ‘Moai’ statues face irreparable damage after wildfire

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October 8, 2022363 Views

A number of Easter Island’s iconic ‘Moai’ stone statues suffered irreparable damage after a wildfire swept through the island earlier this week, the island’s mayor told Reuters on Friday. “It’s unquantifiable, unmeasurable, the damage there is, it’s irrecoverable,” said Pedro Edmunds, mayor of Easter Island, a territory of Chile. “Because what the fire does is heat the rock and the rock cracks.” He said scientists are going to visit the island alongside park administrators to evaluate the extent of the damage and determine what can be done. “I don’t know if there’s a solution for this,” Edmunds said. A preliminary report released by Chile’s culture, arts and heritage ministry stated that a wildfire that started on Tuesday swept through more than 60 hectares (148.26 acres) ...

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Research center in Chile’s Cape Horn serves as climate change ‘sentinel’

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September 30, 2022912 Views

Located at the tip of South America, where the Pacific and Atlantic oceans meet, Cape Horn in Chile is the closest land mass to Antarctica and home to a unique ecosystem that scientists say is a natural laboratory to study climate change. Ricardo Rozzi, director of the almost-completed Cape Horn International Center (CHIC), said the area has at least 10 features - including the world's southernmost forest - which make the Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve ideal to monitor plant and animal life on a warming planet. A boat travels along Beagle channel, Cabo de Hornos area, Magallanes and Chilean Antarctic Region, in Puerto Williams town, Chile, September 24, 2022. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado "in the north are coming south, but what happens to the ones here in the south? Do they vanish? Do they...

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Mountain glacier in Chile’s Patagonia collapses amid high temperatures

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September 14, 2022795 Views

Higher temperatures and rainfall that weaken ice walls caused part of a hanging glacier to break off at a national park in Chile's Patagonia region in an event captured on video by tourists. In a video that went viral Monday, a glacier that sits atop a mountain about 200 meters (656 feet) high rumbled and broke off at Queulat National Park, located more than 1,200 kilometers (746 miles) south of Chile's capital. Detachments between masses of ice are normal, says University of Santiago climate scientist Raul Cordero, but he noted that the frequency of these events is troubling. "Because this type of event is triggered by heat waves or by intense liquid precipitation events and both things are also happening more and more frequently throughout the planet, not only in Chile," Corder...

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Scientists find new bird species at South America’s edge

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August 27, 2022276 Views

In a sparse, windswept pasture at the frigid tip of South America lives a tiny bird whose quiet life is shedding light on the importance of studying the world's most remote places. In the Diego Ramirez Islands, 100 kilometers (62 miles) from southern Chile's Cape Horn, scientists have identified the Subantarctic rayadito, a 0.035 pound (16 gram) brown bird with black and yellow bands, and a large beak that is confounding biologists. That's because the Subantarctic rayadito, which resembles a rayadito species that inhabits the forests of southern Patagonia and nests in trunk cavities, was found "living in a place with no trees." A newly identified bird, named 'Rayadito Subantartico' (Aphrastura subantarctica), is seen at Gonzalo island, Cabo de Hornos area, Magallanes region, Chil...

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Chile sinkhole grows large enough to swallow France’s Arc de Triomphe

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August 8, 20221316 Views

A sinkhole in Chile has doubled in size, growing large enough to engulf France's Arc de Triomphe and prompting officials to order work to stop at a nearby copper mine. The sinkhole, which emerged on July 30, now stretches 50 meters (160 feet) across and goes down 200 meters (656 feet). Seattle's Space Needle would also comfortably fit in the black pit, as would six Christ the Redeemer statues from Brazil stacked head-to-head, giant arms outstretched. The National Service of Geology and Mining said late on Saturday it is still investigating the gaping hole near the Alcaparrosa mine operated by Canadian company Lundin Mining, about 665 km (413 miles) north of Santiago. A sinkhole that was exposed last week has doubled in size, at a mining zone close to Tierra Amarilla town, in Copi...

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Chile’s Easter Island reopens to tourists

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August 5, 2022912 Views

Chile's Easter Island received its first group of tourists on Thursday after closing its borders for more than two years due to the coronavirus pandemic. Easter Island, over 2,000 miles (3,219 km) from the coast of Chile, has over a thousand stone statues -- giant heads that were carved centuries ago by the island's inhabitants -- which have brought it fame and UNESCO World Heritage Site status. FILE PHOTO: A tourist looks at a statue named "Moai" at Easter Island, Chile February 13, 2019. Picture taken February 13, 2019. REUTERS/Marion Giraldo "(Easter Island) is the biggest open air museum in the world," said Pedro Edmunds, the mayor of Easter Island, adding that it was time to open the island after it shut its borders 868 days ago. "We've learned what the pandemic is about ...

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Chilean beachgoers become guardians of Elasmosaurus fossils

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June 22, 2022286 Views

While strolling along Los Tubos beach on the central Chilean coast, a group of neighbors found strange remains which turned out to be fossils of an ancient marine reptile that lived in the surrounding sea millions of years ago. Several fossils belonging to the long-necked sea creature from the Upper Cretaceous period, known as Elasmosaurus, were found by Andrea Galvez and other residents of the town of Algarrobo, some 95 kms (60 miles) east of Santiago, the country's capital. Local Andrea Galvez shows a vertebra fossil from an Elasmosaurus, which was found on a beach, in Algarrobo, Chile, June 16, 2022. REUTERS/Rodrigo Gutierrez Galvez, a physical education teacher, said she usually collects plastic she finds along the beach, but noticed something strange one day after getting of...