A study by Turbli shows flights crossing the Andes Mountains face the world's worst turbulence, while North American Rocky Mountain routes dominate regional rankings.

In September 2018, a wildfire burned nearly two thousand hectares of shrubland on the Pichu Pichu volcano, an ecologically ...

Three years ago, while exploring the Mojanda mountain range in Ecuador, a team of researchers from a local NGO and a ...

DNA study shows the deadly potato blight came from South America.

A new study reveals the extreme vulnerability of the Arequipa shrublands to these blazes, with severe soil degradation ...

Leaving behind the comforts of Spain, Blessed Ascensión sailed to Peru, where she educated the poor and founded a missionary ...

The vicuña’s social habit of pooping in the same place could help Andean ecosystems adapt as glaciers rapidly retreat due to ...

West Virginia may be thousands of miles away from the ideal coffee-growing climate, but from the Andes mountains to the ...

Literally "old mountain" in Quechua, Peru's dominant indigenous language, Machu Picchu is built into peaks more than 2,400 ...

A tragic bus crash in the southwestern municipality of Yocalla, Bolivia, has claimed at least 31 lives and injured over a ...