Los Nevados National Park reveals a dramatic Andean landscape filled with rugged volcanic peaks, rolling highland terrain, ...

developing solutions to today’s environmental challenges. On the windswept slopes of the Andes mountains, rugged forests grow. These exceptionally hardy trees and shrubs, known as Polylepis, have ...

A new scientific study by researchers from the University of Liège (Belgium) shows that rivers in the Andean mountains contribute 35% and 72% of riverine emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2 ) and methane ...

How did the Andes—the world's longest mountain range—reach its enormous size? This is just one of the geological questions that a new method developed by researchers at the University of Copenhagen ...

More than 22,000 feet above sea level—and 6,000 feet higher than the highest human settlement—you might find an Andean leaf-eared mouse, the highest-dwelling mammal in the world. Six years ago a ...

The zero-emissions luxury train is taking travellers through rainbow mountains, Indigenous villages and a 10,000-year-old ...

In Argentina’s far north, where rugged mountains fold into narrow valleys and small adobe settlements cling to the landscape, ...

An international research team has conducted the first in-depth, wide-scale study of the genomic history of ancient civilizations in the central Andes mountains and coast before European contact. The ...

The Andes have been a mountain chain for much longer than previously thought, new research from the University of Bristol, UK suggests. The Andes were formed by tectonic activity whereby earth is ...

The Andes Mountains in South America are the world's longest mountain range and a hotspot of biodiversity. But the forest that climbs up this mountain range provides another important service to ...