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

Perched on the northeastern flank of Antisana National Park, the Chakana Reserve is a privately protected sanctuary managed ...

Over the past two decades, photographer Irina Werning has traveled around Latin America with a specific directive in mind: ...

Hummingbirds are often highly aggressive and territorial, but in the tough terrains of the Andes Mountains ... Hillstar hummingbirds in his native Ecuador were not fighting over nesting ...

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

A Welsh explorer aiming to become the first person to trek the Andes solo through seven countries says he’s been mugged in ...

About 10 years ago, with no fanfare or publicity, Alaska became more known in South America with the creation of Alaska del ...

The Terra Des Osos trail running race in Ecuador is protecting this iconic species, while also saving a town lost in time.

The girl was only 13 years old when she was sacrificed to the gods but had been frozen in time for hundreds of years when a ...

Researchers visited several sites in the Andes mountains of eastern Ecuador as part of a yearslong project to document the area’s amphibian diversity. They focused on a group of treefrogs often ...

Werning’s extensive body of work began in the Andes. As she was photographing schools around Argentina’s Indigenous Kolla community in the northwest, during her travels she encountered women ...