Tag: Chile

Tag: Chile

An Extinct Tree Returns to Life

On Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, a tree once popular for construction, firewood, feeding cattle and making sacred artefacts became extinct. Easter Island is a special territory of Chile in the southeastern Pacific Ocean. The overused tree also was challenged by changes in environmental conditions. By the 1960s, Easter Island’s vegetation was 90

Tree Could Be Over 5,000 Years Old

Back in 1972, the grandfather of Jonathan Barichivich discovered a Patagonian cypress that might be the oldest tree in the world. He found it in the Andes Mountains of South America in the Alerce Costero National Park in Chile. Today, Barichivich of Chile is an environmental scientist working at the Climate and Environmental Sciences Laboratory