An unusual winter heat wave has brought record high temperatures to cities across Argentina, Chile and Paraguay this week, triggering concerns about the impacts of climate change.
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A Fresh View of an Increasingly Familiar Black Hole
Radio astronomers have captured a wide-angle image of one of the most violent locales in the cosmos.
Your Wednesday Briefing
Fox News settles a defamation suit.
Courting the Sirens of the Southern Sky
These days it takes a generation to build a giant telescope. A new one is taking shape in the Atacama Desert in Chile.
Bird Flu Sample from Chilean Man Showed Some Signs of Adaptation to Mammals
These changes were unlikely to be enough to allow the virus to spread easily among humans, and the health risk to the public remains low, experts said.
Who Was Pablo Neruda and Why Is His Death a Mystery?
After a decade-long investigation, a team of forensic experts issued their final report on the exhumed remains of the acclaimed Chilean poet. Here’s why there are so many questions around his death.
Was Pablo Neruda Murdered?
There has long been suspicion that Chile’s military dictatorship poisoned the nation’s most famous poet. A decade-long investigation has produced tantalizing clues, but nothing more.
Chile Wildfires Leave 13 Dead
More than 150 fires burning in the country have also destroyed thousands of acres of forest, as the country faces a scorching heat wave.
Move Over, Pablo Neruda. Young Chileans Have a New Favorite Poet.
Gabriela Mistral, the first Latin American to win a Nobel Prize for literature, was long considered staid. A new generation is reclaiming her as an anti-establishment icon.
Teenage Rapper, Rooted in Mapuche Identity, Roars for Indigenous Rights
MC Millaray, 16, an emerging music star in Chile, uses her fierce lyrics to convey five centuries of struggles by the country’s largest Indigenous group against European colonizers.