The Chimborazo Mountains, located in the Andes of Ecuador, are home to the Chimborazo volcano, which holds the unique ...

If you measure from sea level, Mount Everest is the highest mountain. But if you measure distance from the centre of the Earth, a different winner emerges because our planet isn’t a perfect sphere, it ...

Ecuador's Mount Chimborazo is scientifically closer to space than Mount Everest, not due to sea-level height, but Earth's equatorial bulge. This bulge makes points near the equator farther from the ...

Ultra-accurate simulations of the gravity field guide toward a new mathematical foundation of gravity modelling. A layered Earth. (Courtesy: iStock/AlexLMX) The Earth is not a perfect sphere. This ...

The Economist has chosen its word of the year, but one term can never sum up everything that happened over 366 days around the world. A wider view can be found in the Word of the Week. These are ...

Ecuador's last mountain ice harvester, Baltazar Ushca, who spent over half a century climbing the country's highest summit to extract ice at the top, died Friday at the age of 80, authorities in his ...

Baltazar Ushca Ushca was a legend in the Andean country and beyond, as the the last practitioner of the age-old profession of ice harvester - Copyright AFP/File ...

What is the highest mountain on Earth? Turns out the answer to that question is more debatable than you might think. If you measure altitude above mean sea level, then the 29,032-foot (8,849-meter) ...