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

For 130 years, a small Chilean frog vanished from scientific view. Biologists searched. Nature enthusiasts kept their eyes ...

At No. 1 is the flight between Mendoza, Argentina, and Santiago, Chile, which has an eddy dissipation rate (EDR)—EDR is a ...

Outside of a handful of valleys in Antarctica, the Atacama is the driest place on Earth. The inhospitable landscape of sand, bare rock, and salt flats is so extreme and otherworldly that it’s used as ...

The vicuna, a cousin of the llama and alpaca, holds a secret: its wool is among the world's finest and most coveted. By the ...

Yet “Ancient Arts of the Andes,” currently on view at the museum, is perhaps the weirdest show in its 25-year history. Museum Director Rene d’Harnoncourt had been planning the exhibition for ...

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 ...

Fjeldså was nearing completion of his book Birds of the High Andes, and Aucca, an experienced Indigenous guide and expert on the region, was accompanying him on his final trips, braving harsh ...

The story of Peru's drug 'mules' - the youngsters who hike cocaine from a tropical valley up to highland towns in the Andes, and out towards the border with Brazil.

Over thousands of years, evolution has helped the Aymara people of the high plains of Andes mountains adjust to altitudes as high as 14,400 feet (2.75 miles) above sea level. This indigenous ...