Stretching like a colossal spine along western South America, the Andes stand as the world's longest mountain range. It spans ...

Wildflowers are blooming in the Atacama Desert, an inhospitable stretch of land west of the Andes Mountains that normally ...

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 developed by researchers at the University of ...

An archaeologist is piecing together what the V-shaped stone structures—some stretching 500 feet long—were used for.

Paleontologists may have discovered when plant-eating dinosaurs evolved their long necks after a new species of ...

A new scientific study by researchers from the University of Liège (Belgium) shows that rivers in the Andean mountains contribute 35% and 72% of riverine emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2 ) and methane ...

The Andes Mountains of South America are the most species-rich biodiversity hotspot for plant and vertebrate species in the world. But the forest that climbs up this mountain range provides another ...

This series, Voices from the Land, brings together opinion pieces led and written by Indigenous peoples from around the world ...

Archaeologist Adrián Oyaneder discovered dozens of structures called chacu while reviewing satellite images of the Camarones ...