Climate change is hitting mountain regions around the world “more intensely” than lowland areas, putting billions of people at risk. A major analysis from the University of Portsmouth has revealed how ...

Andean glaciers advanced during an acute period of climate change at the end of the last Ice Age, new research has found. An international team of glaciologists, led by Aberystwyth University, made ...

The Andes mountain range, stretching over 8,900 kilometers along South America's western edge, serves as the continent's primary water tower. This massive mountain system supplies fresh water to ...

Small mountain ponds high in the tropical Andes may be playing an outsized role in global climate change, according to new research led by scientists at the University of North Carolina. The study, ...

Geographer Jeff Bury is studying the impacts of climate change in Peru. Photo by Jeff Bury. For residents of Peru’s remote villages high in the Andes mountains, climate change is right outside the ...

High in the Andes Mountains of Argentina and Chile, mining companies are scouring the landscape to look for copper, gold, lithium and cobalt deposits, among other lucrative ores. Most of these metals ...