Rapa Nui, the indigenous name of Easter Island, bears witness to a unique cultural phenomenon. A society of Polynesian origin that settled there c. A.D. 300 established a powerful, imaginative and ...
In Chile, UNESCO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean, in collaboration with the United States Department of Agriculture (US Forest Service, USDA) and Chile’s National Forest ...
HONOLULU (KHON2) — Rising sea levels are now threatening Rapa Nui’s Moai statues. According to a Cultural Heritage study by students at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, by 2080, the rising sea ...
“Sea level rise is real,” said Noah Paoa, lead author of the study and a doctoral student at the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology. “It’s not a distant ...
A fire on Easter Island caused severe damage to multiple iconic Easter Island heads, photos show. The fire scorched about 250 acres of Easter Island, also known by its indigenous name Rapa Nui, the ...
The Nomination files produced by the States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to ...
Climate Chile Rising Seas FILE - Moai statues stand on Ahu Tongariki, Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, Chile, Nov, 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix, File) (Copyright 2022 ...