Intensified global warming has made eight percent of Chile’s glaciers disappear since 2014, according to data collected in 2022 by Chile’s General Water Department. The Patagonian Ice Field, the world’s second largest contiguous extrapolar ice field, is melting at an increasing rate in the past decade due to the rising temperature. “This winter of 2023, in terms of temperature, will be the highest in Chile’s history,” Chilean Meteorological Directorate claimed.
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Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America. It occupies a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Chile covers an area of 756,096 square kilometres (291,930 sq mi) and has a population of 17.5 million as of 2017. The capital and largest city is Santiago and the national language is Spanish.
Chile borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far south. Chilean territory includes the Pacific islands of Juan Fernández, Isla Salas y Gómez, Desventuradas, and Easter Island in Oceania. Chile also claims about 1,250,000 square kilometres (480,000 sq mi) of Antarctica under the Chilean Antarctic Territory.
