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

Sacred Easter Island statues suffer ‘irreparable damage’ after volcano fire By Mia Alberti and Kathleen Magramo , CNN 3 minute read ...

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 ...

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.

A new moai was found on Easter Island in the bed of a volcano crater lake, thanks to severe drought conditions in the area. The Pacific island, located roughly 2,175 miles west of the Chilean ...

Explore magnificent volcanoes The island owes its existence to millions of years of volcanic activity, with about 70 small vents and three major volcanoes that define the island’s triangular figure.

Embedded in grass and volcanic rock, almost 400 moai – the monolithic human figures carved centuries ago by this remote Pacific island’s Rapanui people -- remained untouched until recently.

The fire was caused by the Rano Raraku volcano on Easter Island. (Photo: Rapa Nui Council via CNN) The Rapa Nui National Park — whose name comes from the Indigenous moniker for the island — is ...

New Easter Island statue found in volcanic crater’s dry lake . March 2, 2023 at 11:17 am Updated March 3, 2023 at 4:09 am . By . The Associated Press. The Associated Press.

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 ...