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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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"In the case of (mosses) we've noticed that they have moved. Before they were between 50 and 350 (meters above sea level) and now they are between 100 and 400," said Rozzi. He says Omora has more diversity per square meter of lichens and mosses than anywhere else in the world. They also help to absorb carbon dioxide.