Literally "old mountain" in Quechua, Peru's dominant indigenous language, Machu Picchu is built into peaks more than 2,400 meters above sea level in southern Peru, where the Andes and the Amazon ...

In the fourth, we visit Lake Titicaca on the border of Bolivia and Peru ... maps and atlases, as well as aerial imagery, to find and talk about major features such as the Amazon and the Andes ...

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 residents of Lima were told to expect added security on their journeys into work after Peru's government declared a state ...

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

The vicuña, a wild relative of the llama, could help reestablish plants in barren areas where glaciers have melted, according to a recent study in the high Andes of Peru. As vicuñas tend to poop ...

Tarcila Rivera-Zea, a member of the Quechua community in Peru, has spent decades pushing ... Growing up in the Peruvian Andes as part of the Quechua Indigenous community, she spoke only the ...

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In the high Andes of northern Peru, the morning sun rises over glaciers in the Cordillera Blanca mountains that loom above the city of Huaraz, an awe-inspiring sight tainted by fears of a growing ...