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Jordan Chiles & Olivia Dunne Make Historic Promise Never Seen From Any US Gymnastics Team Member
Essentially Sports
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August 17, 2025
The 2025 gymnastics season unfolded with two contrasting storylines that captured national attention. Jordan Chiles, balancing collegiate commitment and post-Olympic stature, delivered one of the strongest campaigns of her UCLA career. Olivia...
Chile wants teen pilot and influencer out of Antarctica but he says he's 'stuck' there
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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August 18, 2025
When Ethan Guo embarked on a mission to become the first person to fly solo to all seven continents, there was no telling how his journey would unfold. Packing a survival kit, a satellite phone, and five changes of clothes into his 50-year-old...
Zelestra plans 250 MW solar farm with four-hour battery in Chile
ESS News
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August 18, 2025
Zelestra Energy’s Rinconada Solar project, which has entered Chile’s Environmental Impact Assessment System, would include a 6.1-hectare BESS of an unspecified size at its proposed site in the west of the Metropolitan Region. The BESS would have...
Green hydrogen development threatens wildlife in Chile
Mongabay
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August 18, 2025
Chile aims to be a global leader in green hydrogen production by 2030, with major exports going to Europe and Asia. But researchers warn that the required infrastructure and production process could threaten rare and endemic species in Chile’s...
How the nature of environmental law is changing in defense of the planet and the climate
Space.com
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August 17, 2025
This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. While the dangerous effects of climate change continue to worsen, legal efforts to address a range...
From Texas to Chile: U.S. Army Officer Frocked to Lieutenant Colonel
DVIDS - Georgia
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August 17, 2025
ANTUCO, Chile– Maj. Blas Martinez, U.S. Army South’s (USARSOUTH) Foreign Military Integration (FMI) Chief, Training and Exercises, was “frocked” to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel during a momentous ceremony overlooking the lake in Laguna del Lajas...
Chile’s Bulnes Bridge: Remembering the past, honoring the victims
The Real News Network
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August 15, 2025
Get fearless, uncompromising truth in your inbox. Subscribe to The Real News. It is not a pretty bridge. Four lanes of busy traffic rush across Puente Bulnes during most hours. To the North, it buttresses against two overpasses that lead to a...
CHILESHE HAILS UPND’S FOUR YEARS IN POWER, CITING DEBT CUTS, JOBS, AND CDF GROWTH
Zambian Observer
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August 15, 2025
CHILESHE HAILS UPND’S FOUR YEARS IN POWER, CITING DEBT CUTS, JOBS, AND CDF GROWTH LUSAKA — United Party for National Development (UPND) Media Team Editor, Cosmas Chileshe, has hailed the party’s four years in government as a “firm foundation” for...
Pilot Detained At A Chilean Military Base In Antarctica Finally Cuts Deal To Leave, All For Children's Cancer Research
Jalopnik
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August 15, 2025
20-year-old American pilot Ethan Guo has finally settled his legal dispute with the Chilean government, surrounding his time being effectively stranded on King George Island off the coast of Antarctica. He's been stuck there since June 28, when he...
The battle of the Chilean farmer who swears he won a multi-million lottery in 2018 — but then ruined his ticket
El País
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August 15, 2025
It was the end of March 2018 and the news was spreading throughout Chile. Someone had won the Kino lottery, one of the most popular betting games in the South American country — but no one knew who. The prize was enough to change anyone’s life: a...
Can the economy of the future survive on yesterday’s grid?
Utility Dive
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August 18, 2025
This February, a nationwide blackout in Chile affected over 90 percent of the population after a critical transmission line failed, causing economic activity to dip half of a percent that month. In April, more than 50 million people across Spain...
Milky Way and zodiacal light glow above telescopes in Chile | Space photo of the day for Aug. 15, 2025
Space.com
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August 15, 2025
Recently, the Chilean night sky was illuminated by the glow of the Milky Way galaxy as it was seen above the domes of telescopes at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), a facility of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) NOIRLab....
Chile’s Coastal Erosion Could Erase 10 Beaches within 10 Years
The Japan News
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August 14, 2025
Reuters Houses are seen on the edge of a hill cliff with parts missing due to erosion in Puerto Saavedra, Chile, on May 12. Reuters 10:56 JST, August 14, 2025 RENACA, Chile (Reuters) — Chile’s central and southern coastlines are facing erosion...
Why LATAM Is Turning Against False Environmental Claims— and How to Avoid Greenwashing Successfully
The Baltic Times
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In recent years, in Latin America, sustainability claims have shifted from safe marketing to a credibility test. Brands relying on vague claims now face scrutiny, making ways of avoiding greenwashing crucial to maintaining reputation and trust....
What is a 'firewave'? Experts issue weather warning for UK cities this weekend
Yahoo News - United Kingdom
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People in major UK cities including London have been urged to "stay alert" this weekend amid the threat of so-called "firewaves", as the fourth heatwave of the summer creates the perfect conditions for blazes to get out of control. Firewaves is a...
Chile's El Teniente copper mine resumes operations after fatal collapse
United Press International (UPI)
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Candles burn at a vigil for the workers at the El Teniente mine at the Los Maitenes access control in Rancagua, Chile, on August 2. Six miners died after an earthquake two days earlier caused a partial collapse at the world's largest underground...
Chilean salmon industry, paper companies partner with MIT to launch salmon packaging design competition
SeafoodSource
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Santiago, Chile-headquartered pulp and paper company CMPC has partnered with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to launch “The Salmon Packaging Design Competition” in an attempt to spur sustainable packaging innovations for the salmon...
Chilean researchers explore second life for lithium-Ion batteries
Sada Elbalad
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August 12, 2025
Tue 12 Aug 2025 | 07:13 PM A multidisciplinary team at the University of Chile is investigating how lithium-ion batteries degrade over time and how they could be repurposed to extend their usefulness and prevent large-scale waste accumulation....
Chile and the national green hydrogen company (PART I)
Pressenza
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August 12, 2025
First it was nitrate, then lithium. Today, green hydrogen. And history threatens to repeat itself. The history we did not learn Chile lost its nitrate and did not even grieve. It was taken away in the name of progress, exploited until only white...
Chilean project aims to be at forefront of theoretical astrophysics
United Press International (UPI)
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The CiELO project’s results are intended to complement and enhance the interpretation of data from telescopes such as NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (shown). Photo by NASA Aug. 12 (UPI) -- Chile's the CiELO project is opening new frontiers in...