In this forest thick with trees up to 600 years old lives the southernmost population of the California condor (Gymnogyps ...

The project, which has already got underway, has the potential to open up Chile and turn it into a leader of the region.

Sandwiched between the Andes mountains with Chilean Patagonia to the west and Atlantic Patagonia to the east, the Lake District contains breathtaking vistas from nearly every angle. San Carlos de ...

This jagged, granite-walled mountain towers 11,000 feet over El Chaltén in Southern Patagonia. Mount Fitz Roy, which typically stands obscured in a haze of clouds, was originally named "Chaltén ...

Night - Cloudy. Winds from W to WSW at 7 to 14 mph (11.3 to 22.5 kph). The overnight low will be 53 °F (11.7 °C). Partly cloudy with a high of 69 °F (20.6 °C). Winds from W to WSW at 6 to 19 mph (9.7 ...

Other birds like the Chilean flamingos are native to the Andes Mountains where temperatures, both hot and cold, are extreme. In their upgraded habitat in the brand-new Birds of the World exhibit ...

“It is a continental-size lake stored in the rocks at the top of the mountains, like a big water tower,” UO’s Leif Karlstrom, a co-author of the study, said in a press statement. “That ...

Sunny with a high of 80 °F (26.7 °C). Winds from W to WSW at 6 to 9 mph (9.7 to 14.5 kph). Night - Clear. Winds variable at 5 to 11 mph (8 to 17.7 kph). The overnight low will be 44 °F (6.7 °C ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Extremophilic bacteria from the El Medano hot springs in the Andes produce an exopolysaccharide (EPS) with potential industrial applications. This EPS, derived ...

Turbulence is an inevitable reality of flying, regardless of the distance or the time it takes to reach the destination. Every plane passenger has felt this inconvenience, and there are many reasons ...

To explore this, Dr. Léa Courtial-Manent of France's Université Savoie Mont Blanc and colleagues investigated the long-term erosion trends of the mountain range through the history of rockfall ...

Researchers used drone imagery to analyze the full scope of a massive, 3,000-year-old fortress in the Caucasus mountains. Digitally stitching together 11,000 images, they created a complete map of ...