Irregular rainfall distribution over the past ten million years has influenced the shape of the Andes mountain range, according to a Swiss geology professor. The result is that the western side of the ...

The common view of the Amazon is that it is one massive, unbroken forest. This impression is given by maps which tend to mark the Amazon by a large glob of green or even by its single name which doesn ...

Paleostress modeling shows how a region of the Andean Plateau was uplifted and formed beginning more than 20 million years ago. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

High in the Andes Mountains of Peru, villagers have long reported a strange, haunting sound that rises during earthquakes — a ...

AbstractPrevious work has ascribed a cosmic impact origin to black, high-temperature, carbon-encrusted beds (2–3 cm thick), associated with the Younger Dryas readvance of ice at 12.8 ka during the ...

Abstract Small rivers draining high‐rainfall basins and mountainous terrain west of the Cordilleras in South America have disproportionately high water discharge and sediment load. Fifteen rivers in ...

Towering, crystal-filled twisters periodically swirl in a valley nestled between two volcanoes in the Andes Mountains, newly reported observations show. The odd weather events are the first record of ...

250 years ago on this day German explorer, naturalist and author Alexander von Humboldt was born in Berlin. Encouraged by his father, the young Humboldt collected plants, insects and pebbles in the ...

The Andes is the longest mountain range in the world and boasts some of the highest peaks. The range is also known for its volcanoes, ruins of long-ago civilizations and the source of a malaria ...

Devil in the Mountain is the fascinating story of geologist Simon Lamb's quest to understand how the high Andes formed. It includes a wealth of real-life, even harrowing, anecdotes of fieldwork, mixed ...

Trump’s tariffs expose weakness of Switzerland’s economic independence Read more: Trump’s tariffs expose weakness of Switzerland’s economic independence How Trump is manoeuvring Switzerland closer to ...