Recent research by Bowling Green State University scientists has sent shockwaves through the bird-watching world after ...

As night fell across a mountain ravine in Ecuador, a “cryptic” creature with “blue” bones emerged from its hiding spot and ...

Animal dung in the Andes Mountains in Peru is helping to transform soil recently uncovered by melting glaciers, according to ...

In September 2018, a wildfire burned nearly two thousand hectares of shrubland on the Pichu Pichu volcano, an ecologically significant area in the Peruvian Andes. Unlike Mediterranean ecosystems ...

At No. 1 is the flight between Mendoza, Argentina, and Santiago, Chile, which has an eddy dissipation rate (EDR)—EDR is a ...

Over thousands of years, evolution has helped the Aymara people of the high plains of Andes mountains adjust to altitudes as high as 14,400 feet (2.75 miles) above sea level. This indigenous ...

From the first picture proving that Earth was indeed spherical, to the first color image clicked from the lunar surface, ...

Outside of a handful of valleys in Antarctica, the Atacama is the driest place on Earth. The inhospitable landscape of sand, bare rock, and salt flats is so extreme and otherworldly that it’s used as ...

Over shouts of “Heh! Heh! Heh!”, they play melodies on a quena (an Andean flute) while passengers gather around, squinting through the smoke from offerings burning on the platform at Poroy ...

Hari Budha Magar, 45, made history when he reached the summit of Mount Everest, at 8,849 metres, in 2023, becoming the first ...