Mastercard NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESS Newswire / April 15, 2025 / As Peruvian biologist Constantino Aucca Chutas sat chewing coca leaves with a local elder high in the Andes, his companion pointed to a ...

A recent UN report highlights alarming melting rates of glaciers, which could in turn jeopardise water security for billions ...

Saul Luciano Lliuya grows corn, potatoes and quinoa. In winter, he takes tourists up to the icy heights of the Peruvian Andes.   Now the farmer from the mountain village of Huaraz is in the global ...

Before all of that, she was a Captain in the U.S. Army for six years. "I grew up in the middle of nowhere Ohio, so to me, ...

High in the cloud forests of the Andes lives a rare and mysterious animal - the spectacled bear. Known for their unique facial markings and elusive nature, these bears are the only native bear species ...

Shrinking Andean glaciers threaten water supplies for 90 million people, with near-total ice loss possible by 2100 unless ...

There’s something hypnotic about watching someone completely in the zone, especially when that zone happens to be one of the ...

Ten must-see Hudson Valley art shows this April explore the uncanny, the mythic, and the everyday—through ink, paint, photo, ...

The páramo covers slopes above 10,000 feet in elevation all over the Andes Mountains, and acts like a giant sponge absorbing ...

Many people living in the Himalayas, Andes, Alps, Rocky Mountains ... sending huge volumes of water and debris sweeping down the mountain valleys, wiping out everything in the way.

As one of the most endangered large mammals in the Andes, the Mountain Tapir inhabits cloud forests and páramo, a type of high-altitude tundra. With a short, prehensile snout, they forage for leaves, ...

Soaring temperatures are leading to rapid and largely irreversible changes in the mountain ranges of the world, according to a new UNESCO report. In several regions, higher elevations seem to be ...