Tag: Chile’s

21 OCT

Lithium giants feud over competition, brine in Chile’s Atacama Desert

Enlarge / A general view of Laguna Colorada located near the border with Chile, in the Uyuni salt flats, Bolivia. The Uyuni salt flats are estimated to contain 100 million tons of lithium, making it one of the largest global reserves of this mineral, according to state officials at the Bolivian Mining Corporation. (credit: MARTIN […]

01 FEB

RT crew gets on Russian IL76 firefighting plane to drop tons of water on Chile’s forest fires

RT has shot stunning video from inside a Russian Emergencies Ministry (EMERCOM) plane putting out Chile’s worst-ever wildfires. The IL76 is capable of dropping some 42 tons of water in one go. The EMERCOM firefighting team and its plane were sent to Santiago on Monday at the request of the Chilean government. RT’s Roman Kosarev […]

31 JAN

The worst forest fires in Chile’s history have now destroyed more than a million acres of land

More than a million acres of land have been ravaged by dozens of forest fires in the central-south regions of Chile. Fires started mid-January 2017 and have been described as some of the worst the country has ever faced. Firefighting planes arrived from Russia and Brazil to help combat the fires which have left several thousand people […]