The soil in high-elevation, cooler, drier tropical forests in the Colombian Andes stores more carbon from fires than lower, ...

However, I am generally "more interested in people than animals" – and so, although I found the Galápagos amazing, the highlights of my recent trip to the country were the "unique" culture and ...

An image captured by NASA’s Terra satellite is giving us a new and stunning look at how a rare snowfall cloaked the Atacama ...

High in the Andes, a crucial lagoon vanishes amid driest conditions in almost 50 years An emaciated sheep walks on the dry bed of the Cconchaccota lagoon in the Apurimac region of Peru on Friday.

Lundin also announced in 2022 that they’d be building high-voltage power lines to bring renewable energy to the area and keep diesel consumption to a minimum. However, concerns remain.

In Chile's Millahue Valley, VIK Winery is turning to a singular swath of forest high in the Andes to age its latest ...

In the lesser-visited northwestern corner of Argentina, where the high desert meets the Andes mountains, a historic train travels 13,850 feet above sea level. The train, which is the third highest ...

Thus began the Andes Education Fund, which has the mission to “improve the education of remote, impoverished schools located in the Andes Region of Peru” (www.andesedfund.org).

NEW YORK — The air was thin, the nights were cold, the sun could easily burn the skin. But about 12,000 years ago, small groups of hunter-gatherers found a home very high up in the Peruvian Andes.