(Some volcanoes are still active ... the first in a stream of European adventurers and naturalists drawn to the Andes' soaring peaks and clear skies. To this day, tourists still flock to the ...

When volcanic eruptions make headlines, the images often depict fiery lava and towering ash clouds. But beneath Antarctica’s ...

These volcanoes have a superlative aesthetic beauty ... the Central Andean páramo (home to some 11 bird species of restricted range), and the Ecuador-Peru East Andes (home to 17 restricted-range ...

The Andes run for over 7,000km. Other mountains (usually those that stand on their own) are created by ancient volcanoes. Ben Nevis in Scotland was once a very large active volcano. It last ...

The tiny Juan de Fuca plate is largely responsible for the volcanoes that dot the Pacific ... those that formed some of the mountains in the Andes of South America. At ocean-ocean convergences ...

attracted mostly to the ski centres along the Andes Mountains and to Patagonia. Ecuador's Tungurahua volcano (‘throat of fire’ in indigenous Quechua language) spewed red-hot rock and ash ...