Alpacas are small camelid mammals raised by the ancient Incas in South America over 6000 years ago. Kept in herds, alpacas ...

Plants are sprouting from the ground earlier and earlier once the snow has disappeared. This is now happening on average six ...

These training opportunities and expeditions — from King George Island in Antarctica to the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard in the Arctic, and from the Andes to the eastern Tibetan Plateau — are ...

High up in the mountains, in a rocky world left behind by melting glaciers, life finds an unlikely jumpstart—thanks to poop.

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

A volcano that has not erupted in 250,000 years has shown signs of returning to life. Scientists warned that an eruption ...

Thousands of people were evacuated in Chile and Argentina after a 7.4 magnitude earthquake off Chile's southern coast prompted authorities to issue a tsunami warning that was lifted hours later.

While many know that Mt. Everest is the highest point in Asia (and if we're talking from sea level, the world), few can pinpoint the year when the infamous peak was first summited. As for the other ...

Tierra Atacama just reopened in the Chilean high-altitude desert. Travel + Leisure was the first to stay—read our full review.

There are also four suites (during the hotel renovations, two standard-size guest rooms were combined to form each ... of the three mountain ranges that surround it: the Andes, the Salt, and ...

Uturuncu is a whopping dormant volcano in the middle of South America's barren Andes mountains. It's peak towers 6,008 metres above sea level. When stratovolcanoes erupt it is often very explosive ...