Just less than 10 years ago, Chile's forest authority CONAF began planting the salt-resistant aito tree, which is native to Polynesian islands, on Easter Island. The species, also known as toa or ...

Pretty soon the island had too many people, too few trees, and then, in only a few generations, no trees at all. As Jared Diamond tells it in his best-selling book, Collapse, Easter Island is the ...

Among its species was the world's largest palm tree. It outsized even the giant Chilean wine palm, today's biggest, which grows to 65 feet tall and a yard in diameter. On Easter Island ...

Among its species was the world's largest palm tree. It outsized even the giant Chilean wine palm, today's biggest, which grows to 65 feet tall and a yard in diameter. On Easter Island ...

The study explains that Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, "is often used as an example ... and burn" agriculture by tearing down palm trees and setting them on fire. Farmers would then ...

Easter Island, SOUTH PACIFIC -- That you can now fly here in five hours, several days a week from Santiago, Chile, belies the truth that Easter Island is the most isolated of inhabited places on ...

The volcanic soil on Easter Island is highly weathered and ... To increase yields, the natives initially cut down the island's trees to get nutrients back into the soil. When there were no more ...

A highlight is watching competitors come together to support one another during events like the banana tree trunk toboggan run. Hoteliers on Easter Island know better than to compete with nature.

The deep blue waters, shimmering cliffs and palm tree-lined beaches of Easter Island face a growing threat: plastic. “So now there are some things that belonged to this beach. For example ...

Interestingly, the tablet was found to have been made from Podocarpus latifolia, which does not grow on Easter Island, but is the national tree of South Africa. According to the researchers ...

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. – A detailed new analysis of Easter Island’s rock gardens ... which involved cutting down the island’s trees. This temporarily returned nutrients to the soil, but once ...

One of the most remote inhabited locations on Earth, Easter Island is ... island in the 1700s, the island was deforested, likely to make space for crops. Without trees, the people tried to adapt ...