Nine million years ago, in the shadow of the rising Andes Mountains, a key ancestor of the beloved modern-day potato was born ...

With a wingspan up to 10 feet in length, the mighty Andean condor is one of the largest flying birds in the world. Found ...

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

There's so much to do and see in Argentina. Here, Travel + Leisure A-List advisor Carola Fresno shares what sites to see, ...

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 ...

Three new types of frogs were discovered during off-road scientific expeditions in the remote cloud-shrouded peaks of the ...

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

LAKE ANDES, S.D. — Just outside Lake Andes, a steel grain bin once used to store corn and soybeans has been converted into a ...

The soil in high-elevation, cooler, drier tropical forests in the Colombian Andes stores more carbon from fires than lower, ...

Dani Arnold, Alexander Huber, and Simon Gietl have opened a difficult, route in the Peruvian Andes that just may be the most ...

Heavy but wet: Nevados de Chillán grabs 14–20″ Wednesday night plus another 5–8″ Thursday day for storm totals of 19–28″ (SLR ...

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