Contact Us

Chile's distant paradise where scientists study climate change

Far from the pollution that blights major urban and industrial centers, Navarino Island is a paradise that provides unique conditions to study global warming. "There is nowhere else like it," Ricardo Rozzi, director of the Cape Horn International Center for global change studies and bio-cultural conservation in Puerto Williams, told AFP.

  • 11
  • 16
"We can see what changes happen in the high mountains and in the area close to the sea in a very short distance, and we can see how the temperature affects the biodiversity that lives in this river," Tamara Contador, 38, a biologist at the Cape Horn International Center, told AFP. She studies the gradients themselves.