Recent research by Bowling Green State University scientists has sent shockwaves through the bird-watching world after ...

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

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 ...

Mountain glaciers in the Andes are almost certainly the smallest they have been for at least 130,000 years, a study of rocks ...

In September 2018, a wildfire burned nearly two thousand hectares of shrubland on the Pichu Pichu volcano, an ecologically significant area in the Peruvian Andes. Unlike Mediterranean ecosystems ...

Making the trek along the Inca Trail can be described as challenging because of the altitude in the Andes. Hikers will see cloud forests, Puna grasslands, high mountain passes, and plants native ...

An Andean fox (Lycalopex culpaeus ... In many cases, like [in the] Mojanda [mountain range], they are the rightful owners of the territory, so without their approval and involvement, none ...

Bolivia is home to about 3,000 adult bears, or roughly one-third of the world’s total Andean bears, whose range arcs through five countries along the western edge of South America. Listed as ...