The ancient mountains of the Andes are home to spectacled bears ... but critically important polylepis – known as “cloud ...

MastercardAs Peruvian biologist Constantino Aucca Chutas sat chewing coca leaves with a local elder high in the Andes, his ...

Getty Images/iStockphoto Throughout the cloud forests of the Ecuadorian Andes, researchers hung nearly invisible “mist” nets between the trees hoping to catch an elusive “woolly” species ...

This is how the mountains of the Himalayas in Asia were formed. The Andes are the world's longest mountain range. This causes lava to erupt out of the gap that is left. As it cools down ...