One person is dead and five people remain trapped after a mine collapsed in Chile. The mine collapsed after the U.S.

Thomas Hart has gone to the ends of the earth to pad his world record skiing feat. Guinness World Records just certified that ...

About 9 million years ago, a wild interspecies fling between tomato-like plants and potato relatives in South America gave ...

The potato is one of the world's food staples, first cultivated thousands of years ago in the Andes region of South America ...

Officials say that a worker was killed and five others remain trapped underground after a collapse at a copper mine in Chile.

Chilean copper giant Codelco has halted mining at its flagship El Teniente mine and postponed its quarterly results ...

A major collapse at a key new section of Codelco’s biggest mine is raising questions about the Chilean behemoth’s ability to ...

A chance encounter between a wild tomato and a potato-like plant 9 million years ago is why we have modern-day potatoes, ...

A genome analysis indicates wild tomatoes and a potato-like plant called Etuberosum hybridized to create the modern potato ...

Archaeologists must have one of the coolest jobs ever—as long as a lifetime of digging around in the dirt yields some epic ...

Researchers say they have finally uncovered the mysterious origins of one of our favorite carbs: the humble potato.

After diving into the poles, it’s time to shift our focus to two of the world’s most iconic mountain ranges,the Andes and the Himalayas. As someone who’s spent much of my life near the towering peaks ...