"In the current Easter Island debate, one side says the Rapa Nui decimated their environment and killed themselves off," said Chadwick, a professor in UC Santa Barbara's Department of Geography ...

There is no place in the world like Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui. It feels like it is not even of this world. Located more than 2,000 miles from South America's mainland, it is one of the ...

Easter Island has fascinated historians, researchers, and tourists for centuries. Reaching it is not easy; flights from Europe, with at least two layovers, take about 30 hours. However ...

Easter Island (Rapa Nui) has gained recognition in recent years due in part to a book that used it as a model for societal collapse from bad environmental practices --- ringing alarm bells for ...

HANGA ROA, Easter Island, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Charred Moai stone statues on Easter Island, singed in a wildfire earlier this year, are signs of a growing tension between landowners and ...

The governor of Easter Island has urged the British Museum to return a huge statue, kept in London for 150 years, claiming that the English “have our soul.” The 8-foot-tall basalt figure ...