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As a result, Chile now has the world's largest expanse of radiata pine tree farms and some of the world's most endangered native forests. [5] Chile had a 2018 Forest Landscape Integrity Index mean score of 7.37/10, ranking it 43rd globally out of 172 countries. [6]
Chile began to experience a drought in 2010 and by 2020, precipitation was 20–45% of average nationally and 10–20% of average in the area of Santiago. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] According to René D. Garreaud, of the University of Chile , the drought was the most extreme in the area in over 1,000 years. [ 1 ]
Water supply and sanitation in Chile were once considered efficient and equitable but in 2022 Chile struggled to reliably provide water throughout the country due to drought. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Chile's water resources have been strained by the Chilean water crisis , which was partially caused by a continuing megadrought that began in 2010, [ 5 ] along ...
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 ...
Chile's police on Friday arrested at least 55 people in a fiscal fraud case that could be one of the biggest in the country's history, amounting to about $275 million and implicating small and mid ...
Chile has been suffering from a megadrought since 2010 – the worst for a thousand years. [3] [4] These drought conditions exacerbate summer fires because the vegetation becomes more flammable. [5] Since 30 January 2023, the Ñuble region has maintained a preventive early warning due to the threat of forest fires as a result of high ...
(Reuters) -At least 50 people travelling in a LATAM Airlines flight from Sydney to Chile via Auckland suffered injuries on Monday after a "technical problem" caused a "strong movement", the New ...
In October 1999 Chile introduced "fully-fledged inflation targeting". [13] According to Pablo García Silva, member of the board of the Central Bank of Chile, this has allowed to attenuate inflation. García Silva exemplifies this with the limited inflation seen in Chile during the 2002 Brazilian general election and the Great Recession of 2008 ...