South America is filled with bucket list vacation ... From the wine regions of Mendoza and the Andes Mountains to the incredible Iguazu Falls (a once-in-a-lifetime vacation destination not to ...

On The Americas, you can find some of the wildest plants and animals in some of the most extreme environments on Earth. From natural stories happening in your own backyard to rarely seen dramas ...

The Amazon River is the longest in South America, and the second longest river on Earth after the Nile in Africa. The source (start) of the Amazon River is in the Andes Mountain range in Peru.

A new species of deer, Pudella carlae, has been identified in the Andes Mountains of northern Peru, marking the first new ...

The Earth's longest mountain chain isn't the Andes in South America, or the Himalayas in Asia, or even North America's Rockies. It's an underwater chain of mountains 47,000 miles long. The chain ...

The amphibians are at the mercy of mining operations that are destroying their ecosystems, but local communities throughout South America ... The northern Andes Mountains are a key glass frog ...

In a study conducted by the University of Wisconsin’s Proglacial Lab, Dr. Shaun Marcott’s team has discovered that tropical glaciers in the Andes Mountains are now smaller ... its implications extend ...