As the Earth faces unprecedented climate change, a look into the planet's deep past may provide vital insights into what may ...

The site, known as the Quebrada Honda Basin (QHB) in the Andes mountains in southern Bolivia, encompasses a time period 13 million years ago during the Miocene Epoch. During the Miocene, the Earth's ...

The highest mountain in both the western and southern hemispheres, Aconcagua, opens for trekking and climbing during austral summer.

Most Americans identify the malbec grape as synonymous with Argentina. It is the most popular and most widely planted grape. Torrontes, a relative stranger to wine consumers yet native to ...

The city of Cali, in Colombia, is hosting the UN’s 16th biodiversity summit, known as Cop16. The summit, which runs until ...

By Tom Marquardt And Patrick Darr Most Americans identify the malbec grape as synonymous with Argentina. It is the most ...

The intrepid Nick Knowles sets off on an ambitious adventure to South America. English television presenter and writer Nick Knowles begins his adventure clinging to a rock in the Andes mountains, and ...

In spite of its nationwide fame, the huemul (or south Andean deer) teetered on the brink of extinction just a few years ago.

Over the last ten years Chile has gone from a minor player in the global wine industry to become the fourth largest exporter: 230 million gallons going to 131 countries, with China its major importer.

At 13,000 feet, the bus climbed corkscrew roads cut into the mountains. I tried to distract myself from my growing sense of ...

On a mountaintop in northern Chile, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which holds the largest digital camera in the world, is ...