A new study reveals the extreme vulnerability of the Arequipa shrublands to these blazes, with severe soil degradation ...
In September 2018, a wildfire burned nearly two thousand hectares of shrubland on the Pichu Pichu volcano, an ecologically ...
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The Incas May Have Deliberately Built Machu Picchu Along Fault Lines. Here’s Why.Rualdo MenegatThe reasoning for choosing this extreme location was three-fold (protection against earthquakes, a water supply, and readily available building materials), but all resulted from one ...
Three years ago, while exploring the Mojanda mountain range in Ecuador, a team of researchers from a local NGO and a ...
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What to Do When Lost in the Andes Mountains"How to Survive is a Webby Award-winning series offering expert tips for surviving disasters, attacks, and life's toughest situations. Tune in to How To Survive for a thrilling guide that could save ...
Patagonia’s forests burned fiercely in February 2025, with wildfires destroying tens of thousands of hectares in Argentina.
U.S. enduro racer Marco "Randy" Osborne and Ella Conolly of Scotland took first-places overall for the Pro Men’s and Pro Women's categories at the 2025 Andes Pacifico enduro race, held Jan. 14 ...
A nearly 6,000-year-old forest is once again seeing daylight after millennia hidden under ice in the Rocky Mountains. A team of scientists from Montana State University, the U.S. Geological ...
Climate change is melting away glaciers around the world, but in the Andes Mountains, a wild relative of the llama is helping local ecosystems adapt to these changes by dropping big piles of dung.
Two enormous continent-sized mountains 100 times taller than Everest are hidden thousands of kilometres beneath the Earth’s surface, according to new research that has left experts stunned.
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