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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 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 ...

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 ...

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

The Andean mountain cat is one of the rarest wild cats in the world. Most people have never heard its name, much less seen it. This small feline lives in the Andes Mountains of South America, mainly ...