Island's famous moai statues are crumbling into the sea, forcing locals to face urgent decisions about how best to protect ...

Some volcanoes, like those on Easter Island and Hawai’i, aren’t formed at plate boundaries. Instead, they appear in the middle of ocean plates, fueled by columns of rising hot rock called ...

The Rano Raraku volcano, one of the archaeological sites affected by a fire, is pictured in the Rapa Nui park, Easter Island, Chile, Nov. 15, 2022. PABLO SANHUEZA/REUTERS ...

Easter Island’s towering stone heads and other archaeological elements have been charred by a fire, according to local Indigenous and Chilean authorities. The fire – caused by the nearby Rano ...

Geologically speaking, Easter Island, which lies some 2,200 miles off the coast of Chile, is something of a spring chicken. The oldest parts of the island were formed by volcanic eruptions that ...

New Easter Island statue found in volcanic crater’s dry lake. The new moai statue joins the approximately 1,000 other iconic monolithic sculptures on what is internationally known as Easter Island.

The newest Easter Island statue was found lying on its side and is just over 5 feet tall. ... The laguna, or lake, within the volcano began to dry up in 2018, ...

Since Easter Island is volcanic—the lava deposits sit atop an oceanic plate not much older than the actual volcano—dating zircon minerals (several extinct varieties of which are believed to be ...

Some volcanoes, like those on Easter Island and Hawai’i, aren’t formed at plate boundaries. Instead, they appear in the middle of ocean plates, fueled by columns of rising hot rock called ...

Easter Island Volcanoes Challenge Textbooks on Earth's Interior Oct 17, 2024 at 1:48 PM EDT . By . Ian Randall is Newsweek's Deputy Science Editor, based in Royston, U.K., from where he covers ...

The fire — caused by the nearby Rano Raraku volcano — started Monday and razed more than 100 hectares of the island, damaging its famous stone-carved statues known as ‘Moai’ which were ...