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Environmental issues in Chile include deforestation, water scarcity, pollution, soil erosion, climate change, and biodiversity loss, especially in its industry-heavy "sacrifice zones". [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The country of Chile is a virtual continental island that spans over (2,600 miles) 4,200 kilometers.
TIERRA DEL FUEGO, Chile — Glacial geologist Brenda Hall clambered up the side of a truck-sized, rain-slicked boulder in clothes soaked from a day hiking over forested ridges in the Patagonian ...
VINA DEL MAR, Chile (Reuters) -The death toll from wildfires raging across central Chile hit 122 on Monday as helicopters dumped tons of water on blazes and emergency crews told Reuters they were ...
Deputy Interior Minister Manuel Monsalve reported on 4 February that there were 162 forest fires across central and southern Chile. [8] The region experienced unusually high temperatures, reaching up to 40 °C (104 °F) in the past week, [9] worsened by the El Niño phenomenon [10] and a "mega-drought" that has affected the country over the last decade. [11]
Chile's environmental regulator ordered provisional measures for the mining company and AES Chile, a power company, on Tuesday after dozens of people in the towns of Quintero and Puchuncavi in ...
Chile has improved in this area since the 1980 declaration to 'live in a pollution-free environment'. Chile has increased exports of fruits and wine requiring improvements and growth in irrigation technology and management. Future hydroelectric projects on the Baker River are in planning stages and should help Chile cope with its energy demands.
At least 112 people have been killed by forest fires raging in Chile, officials said Sunday. The increased death toll came after President Gabriel Boric said earlier Sunday afternoon that the ...
Petorca in Chile has experienced a drought as part of the Chilean water crisis since 2010. [1] It is the longest and most intense drought in the area in the last 700 years. [ 1 ] By 2018 the Ministry of Public Works had decreed Petorca a "zone of water scarcity " for fourteen years in a row. [ 2 ]