Fragile highland ecosystems showed low resilience to fire, which renders them more vulnerable to long-term degradation.

Animal dung in the Andes Mountains in Peru is helping to transform soil recently uncovered by melting glaciers, according to ...

The girl was only 13 years old when she was sacrificed to the gods but had been frozen in time for hundreds of years when a ...

High in the Andes Mountains, glaciers have fed life for centuries. Their frozen stores of water support millions of people ...

Scientists from the University of Sheffield will warn policymakers that the shrinking glaciers of the Andes threaten the ...

Mountain Lodges of Peru, the family-owned and operated adventure outfitter, has announced the launch of daily departures for ...

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

Reforestation day in the Vilcanota mountain range in Peru. Image courtesy of Luis Torres ... Fjeldså was nearing completion of his book Birds of the High Andes, and Aucca, an experienced ...

As night fell across a mountain ravine in Ecuador, a “cryptic” creature with “blue” bones emerged from its hiding spot and ...

The glaciers in the Andes of northern Peru are at the centre of a landmark global case that will test the legal culpability ...