Three years ago, while exploring the Mojanda mountain range in Ecuador, a team of researchers from a local NGO and a ...

Climate change is melting away glaciers around the world, but in the Andes Mountains, a wild relative of the llama is helping local ecosystems adapt to these changes by dropping big piles of dung.

High in the Andes Mountains of Argentina and Chile, mining companies are scouring the landscape to look for copper, gold, lithium and cobalt deposits, among other lucrative ores. Most of these metals ...

A new study reveals the extreme vulnerability of the Arequipa shrublands to these blazes, with severe soil degradation ...

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The world's glaciers lost ice at the rate of about 255 billion tons (231 billion metric tons) annual from 2000 to 2011, but ...

Spanish and Peruvian researchers analyzed the soil four years after a major wildfire in Arequipa, finding severe organic ...

Nguyen Thi Thanh Binh from Hanoi has triumphantly conquered Aconcagua, the highest mountain in the Americas and the tallest peak outside Asia, standing at an impressive 6,959 m.

In 1972, a rugby team’s plane crashed in the Andes, leaving survivors stranded for 72 days, forcing them to endure extreme ...

U.S. enduro racer Marco "Randy" Osborne and Ella Conolly of Scotland took first-places overall for the Pro Men’s and Pro Women's categories at the 2025 Andes Pacifico enduro race, held Jan. 14 ...

Relatives of the llama are dropping dung as they venture into higher elevations in the Andes Mountains, providing a nutrient-rich environment for life to thrive despite glacier loss. Climate ...