A New Species of Colorful Lizard Found Thriving in Harsh Climatic Conditions of Andes Surprises Scientists Countless species ...

Aymarans, who live in the Andes mountain range of western South America, have evolved their own unique adaptation to life at ...

“Yellowjackets” was partly inspired by the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which had the Uruguayan amateur rugby team on board when it went down in the Andes mountains. On Oct. 13 ...

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 ...

I got altitude psychosis a few hundred meters from high camp as I scaled the frigid face of Huayna Potosí, one of the highest mountains in the Bolivian Andes. My optimism, my determination ...

EL BOLSÓN, Argentina — A freakish red sun burst through enormous red-tinged mushroom-shaped clouds billowing smoke as we rattled down the dirt roads in the foothills of the Andes mountains ...

But the beauty of these bouquets comes at a cost. In Colombia, high in the Andes Mountains, a delicate cloud forest is being chipped away at, fragmented and polluted, say environmentalists in the ...

This is how the mountains of the Himalayas in Asia were formed. The Andes are the world's longest mountain range. This causes lava to erupt out of the gap that is left. As it cools down ...