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Chile Writes a New Constitution, Confronting Climate Change Head On
Chile has lots of lithium, which is essential to the world’s transition to green energy. But anger over powerful mining interests, a water crisis and inequality has driven Chile to rethink how it defines itself.
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Why Doesn't Uruguay Celebrate Christmas?
Uruguay's state calendar makes no mention of Christmas or Holy Week, part of a secularization of its calendar which dates back to 1919.
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Chile’s attempts to move up the lithium value chain are not working
One problem is the country’s distance from manufacturing centres
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Falling Fireballs Crashed in Chile Last Week. They Weren't Meteorites, Experts Say.
Chilean officials are investigating a curious collection of burning objects that fell onto parts of the country last week.
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The farmers who worry about our phone batteries
Lithium is being mined in Chile to make batteries, but at what cost to the local environment?
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Chile to account for costs of climate change in budget
Chile will begin budgeting for the costs of fighting climate change, Finance Minister Felipe Larraín announced on Tuesday, as receding glaciers and drought put a squeeze on water and natural resources in the world’s top copper producer. The South American nation, which is due to host the COP25 global conference on climate change in December, said it would include a new line item for “climate expenditures” in its government budgets beginning in 2020.
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40,000 liters of oil have spilled into the sea off a remote island in Chile's pristine Patagonia
The Chilean Navy has been deployed after 40,000 liters of diesel were spilled into the sea near a remote island on the country's southern coast. The oil spill occurred on Saturday off Guarello Island on the Chilean side of Patagonia, the pristine southernmost region making up the tip of both Argentina and Chile.
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Employee Falls for Fake Job Interview Over Skype, Gives North Korean Hackers Access to Chile's ATM Network: Report
The one thing no one expects on a job interview is North Korean hackers picking up on the other line. But that’s apparently exactly what happened to a hapless employee at Redbanc, the company that handles Chile’s ATM network.
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Monument or mirage? Hand rises from the desert
It's dry, barren and sparse. The otherworldly landscapes of northern Chile's Atacama Desert could easily be from Mars. It is the driest desert in the world outside of the polar regions, and its 40,500-odd square miles of red and burnt-orange plains stretch as far as the eye can see. The drive through the desert marks a stretch of the Pan-American Highway, a network of roads measuring around 19,000 miles in total; an admirable notch on any road-trip fiend's travel belt.
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Pope defrocks Chile priest at center of global abuse scandal
Pope Francis has defrocked the Chilean priest at the center of the global sex abuse scandal rocking his papacy, invoking his "supreme" authority to stiffen a sentence originally handed down by the Vatican in 2011. In a statement Friday, the Vatican said Francis had laicized the 88-year-old Rev. Fernando Karadima, who was originally sanctioned to a lifetime of "penance and prayer" for having sexually abused minors.
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Saving the Prized Chile That Grows Only in Oaxaca’s Mountains
Farmers growing the smoky pepper had no idea chefs were paying top dollar for it.
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Chile police raid Catholic church HQ in sex abuse investigation
Sending stuff to space is always fun, but deciding what to launch is tricky — if you have the choice. For Ronnie Doyle, his decision was a copy of Earthbound, the 1994 SNES game which has become a cult favourite in the years gone by. Doyle told Kotaku he had the opportunity to send something "smaller than a lunchbox" to space, after his grandfather made a donation to a science group called Earth To Sky Calculus.
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Chile: 3 Women Stabbed in March to Legalize Abortion
Three women in Chile were stabbed during a march to demand free and safe abortions by a group of hooded people who assaulted the protesters in Santiago. Around 40,000 women marched in the Chilean capital, carrying signs that read “the rich pay for it, the poor bleed out,” and “women marching until we are free.” During the march, different women’s movement announced they would present a bill to regulate the voluntary termination of a pregnancy within the first 14 weeks on all cases.
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Chile is the first country in the Americas to ban plastic bags
The country's senate has pased a bill to ban the use of plastic bags in stores.
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Torres del Paine national park, Patagonia, Chile
Photo By Merve Cevik.
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All Chile's 34 bishops offer to resign
All of Chile's 34 Roman Catholic bishops have offered Pope Francis their resignations in the wake of a child sex scandal and cover-up. They asked forgiveness from victims and the Church for their "grave errors and omissions". It was not immediately clear whether the Pope had accepted the resignations.
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Pope Francis Says He Made 'Grave Errors' When Dealing With Chile's Sex Abuse Scandal
Pope Francis has admitted he made “grave errors” in judgment in Chile’s sex abuse scandal and invited the abuse victims he had discredited to Rome to beg their forgiveness. In an extraordinary letter published Wednesday, Francis also summoned Chile’s bishops to the Vatican for an emergency meeting in the coming weeks to discuss the scandal, which has badly tarnished his reputation and that of the Chilean church.
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Chile's Tiny Til Til Faces Big Trash Problem
The trains seem to never stop.
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With 10 Million Acres in Patagonia, a National Park System Is Born
An eagle soared over the lone house atop an arid hill in the steppes of Patagonia Park. In the valley below, not far from the town of Cochrane, President Michelle Bachelet announced the creation of a vast national park system in Chile stretching from Hornopirén, 715 miles south of the capital, Santiago, to Cape Horn, the southern tip of South America, where Chile splinters into fjords and canals.
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Chile declares start of coal power phase-out
Chile will phase out coal power generation, president Michelle Bachelet declared on Wednesday. The energy ministry has secured an agreement with its major utilities not to build any more coal plants, unless they are fitted with technology to pump the emissions underground. A working group will develop a plan to replace existing coal capacity, Bachelet said. The fuel generated 35% of the South American country’s electricity in 2015.
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