The classic postcard images of the Chilean capital of Santiago surrounded by the snow-covered Andes in winter now seem like ...

In a study conducted by the University of Wisconsin’s Proglacial Lab, Dr. Shaun Marcott’s team has discovered that tropical glaciers in the Andes Mountains are now smaller than they have been at any ...

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.

As the Earth faces unprecedented climate change, a look into the planet's deep past may provide vital insights into what may lie ahead. Knowledge of the natural world millions of years ago is ...

Climate change is hitting mountain regions around the world “more intensely” than lowland areas, putting billions of people at risk. A major analysis from the University of Portsmouth has revealed how ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: Chile’s towering El Plomo mountain in the Andes has been climbed and revered for centuries. The route to the top – more ...

Scientists will warn policymakers that the shrinking glaciers of the Andes threaten the water supply of 90 million people on the South American continent at the first-ever World Day for Glaciers ...

Climate change in current times has created problems for humans such as wildfires and reduced growing seasons for staple crops, spilling over into economic effects. Many researchers predict, and have ...

Add to the long list of global warming concerns that melting ice caps could trigger more volcanic eruptions. Worse, researchers said Monday at a scientific conference in Prague, the increasing ...

developing solutions to today’s environmental challenges. On the windswept slopes of the Andes mountains, rugged forests grow. These exceptionally hardy trees and shrubs, known as Polylepis, have ...

Researchers work in the field at Cerro Ballena near Caldera, Chile, as part of a study showing that an increase in volcanic activity in the Andes in the Late Miocene Epoch likely resulted in a cooling ...

Since the 1950s, almost all of the world’s glaciers have been retreating, according to the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This is unprecedented in at least the last 2 ...