SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Recent torrential rains in Chile have brought back to life - for now at least - reservoirs and lagoons that had all but dried up after years of drought, with dramatic images of ...

A glacial lake in Chile's southern Andes has disappeared, and scientists want to know why. The disappearance of the five-acre lake in Bernardo O'Higgins National Park was discovered in late May by ...

The production of farmed salmon in Chile's unique Patagonian lakes has doubled in the last decade, contaminating them with nutrient pollution, invasive species, disease and harmful chemicals, ...

Only about 2.5 percent of all the world’s water is fresh, and 99.7 percent of that fresh water is found in snow, ice, or groundwater. That means rivers and lakes make up a tiny sliver of the world’s ...

You have a gorgeous Lake District at home. Why travel halfway around the world to see lakes?” a helpful American friend asks. “I’d spend more time in Patagonia.” Chile’s Lake District, two-thirds of ...