Spanish and Peruvian researchers analyzed the soil four years after a major wildfire in Arequipa, finding severe organic ...

A new study reveals the extreme vulnerability of the Arequipa shrublands to these blazes, with severe soil degradation ...

Greece’s government declared a state of emergency for Santorini on Thursday after hundreds of undersea earthquakes have ...

Researchers found severe soil degradation four years after a wildfire on Pichu Pichu volcano. Volcanic soils in arid Andean ...

Refugio Tejos serves as a critical rest point on the route to Ojos del Salado, the Andes’ highest peak and the world’s highest active volcano. Located in the Copiapo Province, within the ...

comparable to Earth's tallest dormant volcano, Ojos del Salado in the Central Andes, which stands 22,615 feet tall, as noted ...

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 ...

Perched sky-high in the Andes at the foot of the snow-capped Pichincha volcano, Quito is—quite literally—breathtaking. Thanks to one of the largest and best-preserved colonial cores in Latin ...