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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.

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AVOIDING 'EXTERMINATION' "On a global level, the polar and subpolar ecosystems are the most affected by climate change, so we are in a place where climate change has a much bigger effect on biodiversity than other places," said Contador. River organisms also form part of the alert system.