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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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"The organisms that live here are also indicators of water quality and global environmental change," added Contador. River organisms move about and have already increased their reproductive cycle, says Rozzi. This confirms there has been a small change to the climate in the area that could have been much greater elsewhere on the planet.