Chile

The country’s most southern region has declared its worst drought in 50 years, with it being so dry that grass isn’t even growing, thus raising great concerns among local farmers

Due to this season’s uncommonly high temperatures, the state is now battling against 39 ongoing wildfires, has evacuated 7 areas and temporarily closed 7 national parks

The government has extended its state of emergency in the Viña del Mar area for another month as over 300 households still remain affected from the wildfires, providing them with further humanitarian and financial aid

The country has launched a new scientific mission to explore Antarctica by using new equipment that will allow for its exploration even during winter in order to better understand rising sea levels and temperatures

The government has declared a state of emergency amid the wildfires that have been affecting hundreds of homes and created emergency refuges for the displaced people

A safety warning has been issued after the Volcano Lascar erupted over 6.000 metres into the sky and has now been classified as “unstable”

Prisoners that are part of the indigenous Mapuche tribe have gone on a hunger strike for several days in order to protest their prison rights, claiming that they should be granted to hold their religious rituals within the facilities

Workers at the Escondido mine, which is the world’s biggest, have gone on a protest against “serious security incidents”, ultimately costing millions of forgone dollars to the national copper industry

As part of the country’s new official commitment to exit salmon production from protected areas, AquaChile, the country’s largest salmon farming company, has now ended all salmon production in national parks

The Atacama desert, also known as the driest place on Earth, has unexpectedly had a light rainfall that produced a flowering desert, which is a very rare phenomenon that pushed President Gabriel Boric to now protect the area

Three years after the social outbreak of October 2019, and after a key government change, locals took over the cities and blocked the streets with barricades to demand the right to decent housing and freedom for political prisoners

The Easter Islands have suffered from a wildfire that affected over 100 hectares of their land, damaging hundreds of the famous 500-year-old Moai statues and permanently altering the World Heritage site