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 ...

On Oct. 13, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 carrying 45 people, including a rugby team from Montevideo, crashed in the Andes mountains.

Can you guess the snowiest place on Earth? Dig into the snow data and take a virtual trip to the snowiest places on the planet.

On This Day: Plane crash strands rugby team in Andes On Oct. 13, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 carrying 45 people, including a rugby team from Montevideo, crashed in the Andes mountains.

Constantino Aucca Chutas is leading a group of conservationists on mission to restore forests of the world’s highest-altitude trees.

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 may be able to answer. With unprecedented ...

The Polylepis tree sustains the Andes and the Amazon. To preserve these priceless landscapes, a pioneering biologist has planted millions of them.

The survivors of an 1972 Andes plane crash have recalled the extreme measures they had to take in order to stay alive including resorting to cannibalism.

To celebrate her 40th birthday, the author wanted to hike a mountain in the Bolivian Andes. Hallucinations and vomiting weren't part of the plan.

World Andes plane crash survivors recount resorting to cannibalism 50 years later 'It was hard to put in your mouth. But we got used to it,' survivor Ramon Sabella said ...

Earth's crust is dripping "like honey" into our planet's hot interior beneath the Andes mountains, scientists have discovered.