These glaciers are hugely important water sources ... ounces of gold and 30 million ounces of silver. Mining is one of Chile`s most valuable industries. On Wednesday, Chilean daily La Nacion ...

National Geographic Orion seems like a toy boat in front of the massive Garibaldi Glacier in Chile’s southernmost region of Tierra del Fuego. Photograph by Krista Rossow/National Geographic At ...

The 97 square mile icy monolith is the world’s third largest reserve of fresh water and one of 48 glaciers in Argentina and Chile fed by the melting snow that trickles down from the Andes.

Glaciers form the borders of many countries—ranging from those in the Andes that separate Chile from Argentina to the Siachen Glacier, which marks the northern point of the Line of Control in ...

The glacier-carved coast of Chile is such a place. Here the Earth's energy seems almost palpable. Tectonic plates are spreading and then diving under this fringe of the continent, lifting the ...

The fossilised remains of Chile’s first complete ichthyosaur have been unearthed from a melting glacier deep in the Patagonia area of the South American country. In an expedition led by The University ...

On the border between Chile and Argentina ... striated marble that sit just above the waterline of the glacier-fed lake. When you combine the glossy surface of the marble with the light reflecting ...

Both the Argentine and the Chilean governments recognize permafrost as a strategic freshwater reserve which, in times of ...