Field surveys across forest, coffee crops, and open pastures in southwestern Cundinamarca reveal that habitat transformation ...

developing solutions to today’s environmental challenges. On the windswept slopes of the Andes mountains, rugged forests grow. These exceptionally hardy trees and shrubs, known as Polylepis, have ...

Scientists discovered a new lizard species in Peru's Andes at 4,818 metres. Discover what makes Liolaemus arequipensis unique and how it lives at extreme altitudes.

Stretching like a colossal spine along western South America, the Andes stand as the world's longest mountain range. It spans 8900 kilometers along South America's western periphery, is up to 700 ...

On a clear day, Chile’s towering 5,400-meter El Plomo mountain can be seen from the capital, Santiago. The glacier-capped Andean peak has been climbed and revered for centuries, with the Incas ...

The three-part Netflix documentary series shifts focus from the survival ordeal to the aftermath for survivors and the families of those who died in the 1972 Andes plane crash.

The Andes were formed by tectonic activity whereby Earth is uplifted as one plate (oceanic crust) subducts under another plate (continental crust). To get such a high mountain chain in a subduction ...

Active shortening in the Central Andes shifted from the western to the eastern margin between 10-7 Ma. Here we propose that this shift was primarily controlled by changes in erosion patterns. The ...