Two thousand years before the Inca empire dominated the Andes, a lesser-known society known as the Chavín Phenomenon shared ...

The oldest evidence of psychoactive plant use was found in the Andes, revealing how societies used mind-altering drugs to ...

Inside, researchers found nicotine from wild Nicotiana species and vilca, a psychedelic powder derived from the vilca tree.

The ancient mountains of the Andes are home to spectacled bears ... “My dream was to plant millions of trees and I’m not going to do that alone,” he says. Each year, in the valleys around ...

Dreams. Hope for what may come. Resisting on the high mountains of the Andes. Planting trees for tomorrow. There has been a huge push to plant these trees and other native trees across the Andes i ...

These animals deposit nutrients and plant seeds from lower elevations ... In parts of the Andes and other mountain ranges, including the Rocky Mountains, many people depend on mountain snow ...

A plant native to the areas around the western Amazon River basin on both sides of the Andes Mountains, cacao is believed to ...

a large-scale survey of flora in the Madidi region of the Andes mountains in Bolivia. The team was especially interested in chemical compounds that plants use to help protect themselves from ...

Their teeth are designed to tear through plants and animals. Piranhas lose their teeth regularly, with new, sharp teeth growing in their place. The Andes mountain range is the longest mountain ...

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 ...

Snuff tubes uncovered at Chavin de Huantar in Peru reveal how leaders used mystical experiences to cement their power.

That’s according to a new study that uncovered the earliest-known direct evidence of the use of psychoactive plants in the Peruvian Andes ... ceremonial site in the mountains Peru.