Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new modeling study of the Southern Andes shows that if a megadrought like Chile’s current one strikes again near the end of this ...

High in the Andes Mountains of Argentina and Chile, mining companies are scouring the landscape to look for copper, gold, lithium and cobalt deposits, among other lucrative ores. Most of these metals ...

Brazilian couple Aurora and Eraldo Rodrigues were rescued after being missing for five days in Chile’s Andes mountains near the Argentina border. The couple was found in good health near San Francisco ...

Chile’s long-running megadrought has pushed its Andean ice to a breaking point, shrinking glaciers that once buffered cities and farms from dry years and leaving a water deficit that will not quickly ...

SANTIAGO (Reuters) -Chile's committee of ministers denied permits for Andes Iron’s $2.5 billion Dominga copper and iron mining project, Environment Minister Maisa Rojas announced on Wednesday.

Tapado Glacier, an example of a glacier in the arid landscape of the Southern Andes, Chile. The sharp spikes of snow and ice are typical of dry mountain regions. Meltwater streams pour from the ...

The company said the project, located in the Antofagasta region of Chile, is the largest in its history. Image: GES. Spanish construction firm GES (Global Energy Services) has secured a contract to ...

The solar-plus-storage project has the largest energy storage capacity in all Latin America, according to AES Andes. Image: SRP. Energy company AES Andes has reached commercial operation of a 180MW ...

The high mountains of central Chile look solid and eternal, but their ice is in trouble. For fifteen years, the country has endured a stubborn megadrought, and glaciers have quietly carried much of ...

SANTIAGO, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Chile's committee of ministers denied permits for Andes Iron’s controversial $2.5 billion Dominga copper and iron mining project on Wednesday, according to a statement ...

SANTIAGO, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Chile's committee of ministers denied permits for Andes Iron’s controversial $2.5 billion Dominga copper and iron mining project, Environment Minister Maisa Rojas ...