Easter Island Mystery revealed using mathematical model. Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com. September 1, 2005. Jared Diamond, a professor of geography and physiology at UCLA, has explored the ...

DENVER—A 12-year-old Morrison girl who knew that Easter Island also has the name of Rapa Nui is Colorado’s new geography champ. Isabella Contolini won the crown at the University of Denver ...

A mysterious find on Easter Island, investigated by a team of geologists, suggests that the Earth's mantle seems to behave differently than once thought. Geography textbooks describe the Earth's ...

Thanks to its geography, the southeastern Pacific island of Rapa Nui — also known as Easter Island — has been in the center of a long-running debate about how early people may have sailed back and ...

Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, is a 63-square-mile spot of land in the Pacific Ocean.In 1995, science writer Jared Diamond popularized the “collapse theory” in a Discover magazine ...

Long before the Europeans arrived on Easter Island in 1722, the native Polynesian culture known as Rapa Nui showed signs of demographic decline. However, the catalyst has long been debated in the ...

Long before the Europeans arrived on Easter Island in 1722, the native Polynesian culture known as Rapa Nui showed signs of demographic decline. However, the catalyst has long been debated in the ...

Researchers have found a new moai statue in a dry lake on the Chilean island of Rapa Nui, joining the approximately 1,000 other iconic monolithic sculptures.

FAR out in the Pacific ocean is the picturesque, if somewhat bleak, Easter Island. This little piece of Chile is one of the isolated places on Earth to have a permanent settlement and has long ...

Easter Island, home to the mysterious Moai statues, is reducing the number of days tourists can stay on the island from 90 to 30 days. The decision has been made in an attempt to reduce the ...