Stretching like a colossal spine along western South America, the Andes stand as the world's longest mountain range. It spans 8900 kilometers along South America's western periphery, is up to 700 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: Chile’s towering El Plomo mountain in the Andes has been climbed and revered for centuries. The route to the top – more ...

High in the Andes Mountains of Argentina and Chile, mining companies are scouring the landscape to look for copper, gold, lithium and cobalt deposits, among other lucrative ores. Most of these metals ...

Focusing on the Lake Titicaca Basin in the Andes mountains, anthropologists found through analysis of 1,179 projectile points that the rise of archery technology dates to around 5,000 years ago.

In a study conducted by the University of Wisconsin’s Proglacial Lab, Dr. Shaun Marcott’s team has discovered that tropical glaciers in the Andes Mountains are now smaller than they have been at any ...

Pacific absolute plate-motion change as obtained from a hotspot reference frame (red; from Wessel and Kroenke (2008)) versus as obtained from RPM analysis (blue; fixed Eurasia plate). Map shows the 30 ...

Deep in the Andes mountains, the weathered walls of an ancient town poke out from the dried dirt. The ruins were discovered in the northern Argentinian Hualfin Valley by archaeologists in the 1920s, ...

Andes Mountains, Argentina–Chile and Doha, Qatar: A group of Qatari trekkers has completed a historic high-altitude traverse ...

On October 13, 1972, the Andes mountains witnessed the crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571. Forty five passengers and crew, including 19 members of the Old Christians Club rugby union team, along ...