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 ...

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 ...

Pacific absolute plate-motion change as obtained from a hotspot reference frame (red; from Wessel and Kroenke (2008)) versus as obtained from RPM analysis (blue; fixed Eurasia plate). Map shows the 30 ...

The investigative minds at How to Survive analyze Andes mountain hazards, survival essentials, and tips for staying alive ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The new Netflix drama, directed by J.A. Bayona, tells the story of the disaster, which happened in October 1972 when Uruguayan Air ...

High in the Andes Mountains of Argentina and Chile, mining companies are scouring the landscape to look for copper, gold, lithium and cobalt deposits, among other lucrative ores. Most of these metals ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancient temple ruins discovered in Andes pull back curtain on lost society after 1,000 years Archaeologists have discovered the ...

Cute and cuddly, the chinchilla is an adorable resident of the Andes Mountains, which it calls home. A member of the rodent ...

Dr. Roberto Canessa was only 19 when the plane carrying him and his Uruguayan rugby teammates to a match went down in the Andes Mountains in 1972 — a horrific tragedy and story of survival revisited ...

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 ...