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

Some flamingo colonies live in the Andes mountains at around 13,000 ft (nearly 4 km) above sea level. Their feathers are excellent insulators, but, more importantly, when they stand on one leg, with ...

Whether you are drawn to the call of the Andes or the mysteries of the Amazon, Peru is a destination that will leave an imprint on your soul. Peru offers endless playground opportunities for ...

The enchanting dunescape stretches over 43 miles (70 km) along the coast and over 30 miles (50 km) inland. Lençois translates ...

STARDUST (11D: "93 Percent ___" (Nikita Gill poem about our cosmic makeup)) Nikita Gill is a poet and writer who has written eight books of poetry ... between the Andes Mountains and the Pacific Ocean ...

On Oct. 13, 1972, a chartered Uruguayan Air Force flight carrying the Old Christians Club from Montevideo Uruguay, to Santiago, Chile, crashed in the snowy Andes Mountains. The wreckage was not ...

(AP Photo/Henry Griffin, File) FILE- A member of the Andean Group Rescue Corp throws a handful of earth over the common grave of 29 victims of a Uruguayan plane that crashed in the Chilean Andes ...

(AP Photo/Henry Griffin, File) FILE- A member of the Andean Group Rescue Corp throws a handful of earth over the common grave ...

The crash of an American Airlines jet that collided with an Army helicopter was the latest to strike the sports world in the U.S. and globally.