“British Columbia’s major mountain ranges are oriented ... impacting similar topography, such as the Atacama desert, beyond the Chilean Andes. The east slopes of the Coast Range in central ...

Whether you love hiking or animals or seeing the best stargazing in the world, the Atacama Desert is an incredible place for travelers. Here we give you the best travel advice for getting the most out ...

Beneath Chile’s brilliant skies, the ELT grows—an engineering giant ready to capture the secrets of the universe with the ...

Thomas Richard Marsh, an astrophysicist at University of Warwick, was last seen a week ago near the astronomical observatory La Silla on the outskirts of the Atacama Desert where he is understood ...

Climate change isn’t just a future threat for the Andes mountain region, but a present reality that is already occurring, found the study, published in the Communications Earth & Environment ...

Can a volcano rise from the dead? Uturuncu, a lofty peak in the Central Andes mountain range, is what’s known as a “zombie volcano.” It hasn’t erupted for more than 250,000 years ...

4️⃣ ‘Zombie volcano’: When Uturuncu — a lofty peak in Bolivia’s Andes Mountains — started stirring after hundreds of thousands of years, scientists wondered if an eruption was imminent.

The Brown Planetarium is open on select weekends from May to July for free, family-friendly programs. Attendees can explore ...

Colombia and Ecuador do. The high-altitude Andes Mountain range, with a year-round temperate climate, provides ideal growing conditions. The Andean Trade Preference Act of 1991 set off a South ...

The city, which is surrounded by the towering Andes mountains and the shimmering Pacific, has all the hustle and bustle you would expect of a Latin American metropolis. Santiago is overshadowed by ...

An international team of scientists - including one based in New Zealand - has found climate change is already a crisis unfolding in South America's Andes mountains. Their research showed global ...