Brief Context
In News Chile’s central and southern coastlines are experiencing rapid erosion, with scientists projecting that at least 10 beaches could disappear within the next decade. Major Causes Climate Change: Increased frequency and intensity of sea swells are eroding beaches faster than before. Rising sea levels, sudden rainstorms, and recurring heatwaves are accelerating coastal retreat.
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Syllabus: GS1/ Geography
In News
- Chile’s central and southern coastlines are experiencing rapid erosion, with scientists projecting that at least 10 beaches could disappear within the next decade.
Major Causes
- Climate Change: Increased frequency and intensity of sea swells are eroding beaches faster than before.
- Rising sea levels, sudden rainstorms, and recurring heatwaves are accelerating coastal retreat.
- Human Factors: Unregulated urbanization and ongoing coastal construction are destroying natural barriers such as dunes and wetlands, making beaches more vulnerable.
| About Chile – Location: 1. Chile is the southernmost country in the world, the closest to Antarctica. 2. It occupies a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. – Borders: 1. It shares land borders with Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far south. – Climate and Topography: 1. The diverse climate of Chile ranges from the world’s driest desert in the north, the Atacama Desert through a Mediterranean climate in the centre, humid subtropical in Easter Island, to an oceanic climate, including alpine tundra and glaciers in the east and south. 2. Chile is located along a highly seismic and volcanic zone, part of the Pacific Ring of Fire, due to the subduction of the Nazca and Antarctic plates in the South American plate. – Resources:
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Source: DD News