Rodolfo Dugarte Sanchez has a dream. The young teacher from the Venezuelan Andes wants the children of the remote village of ...

As the Earth faces unprecedented climate change, a look into the planet's deep past may provide vital insights into what may ...

Trailing behind the fluffy animal, however, is a tail longer than the rest of its body combined, more than 6 inches long, ...

Other famed peaks and mountain ranges, such as Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and the Andes mountains in South America are ...

The site, known as the Quebrada Honda Basin (QHB) in the Andes mountains in southern Bolivia, encompasses a time period 13 million years ago during the Miocene Epoch. During the Miocene, the Earth's ...

I felt it after the bus pulled away from Puente Ulta, or Ulta Bridge, in Huascarán National Park, eight hours north of Lima, ...

Gallardo fears his family will soon have to leave the area: “We’re going to have to go somewhere else, see what we can do, maybe head south ... the Andes, the world’s longest mountain ...

By Tom Marquardt And Patrick Darr Most Americans identify the malbec grape as synonymous with Argentina. It is the most ...

In spite of its nationwide fame, the huemul (or south Andean deer) teetered on the brink of extinction just a few years ago.

Argentina’s wine-growing regions stretch from the north in Salta to Patagonia in the south — nearly two-thirds of the length ...

While sun-seekers crowd Mediterranean beaches and tourists swarm popular capitals, here are the hidden gems that we think ...