A plant native to the areas around the western Amazon River basin on both sides of the Andes Mountains, cacao is believed to ...

Hannah Ginsborg and Markita del Carpio Landry, two UC Berkeley professors, were among the 198 recipients of the 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship. This year marks the 100th class of the Fellowship.

There has been a huge push to plant native trees across the Andes in recent years. And it’s been a success. This is episode 23 of Stories of Resistance, in honor of Earth Day.

Photos of the French Alps, Utah, the Maldives, Quebec, Australia and Argentina show the naturally occurring letters.

Maca: A Superfood for Strength and Vitality In an era where health trends come and go, one ancient remedy is making waves for its substantial health benefits—maca root. This pow ...

The Zoo will soon bid a heartfelt farewell to one of its most cherished residents, Chaska, the female Andean bear.

Seismologist Deborah Kilb was wading through California earthquake records from the past four decades when she noticed ...

Aconcagua is the highest peak in both the western and southern hemispheres, and has the second-highest prominence of any peak in the world. This ...

Discover how to survive being lost in the extreme isolation of the Andes Mountains.

For a scenic trip to the Andes, head to this charming tourist-friendly and white-walled city with a vibrant culture that is ...

The next frontier of exclusive, members’-club culture? Ski mountains. We went to Netflix founder Reed Hastings’s new Powder Mountain to see how private mountains are taking over—and changing ...

Andes 4000m+ above sea level in the Andes mountains. El Zorro, by contrast, sits at low altitude in a coastal location close to infrastructure like power and water. “If it was to get to a size where ...