Climate change is melting away glaciers around the world, but in the Andes Mountains, a wild relative of the llama is helping local ecosystems adapt to these changes by dropping big piles of dung.

As the Earth faces unprecedented climate change, a look into the planet's deep past may provide vital insights into what may lie ahead. Knowledge of the natural world millions of years ago is ...

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 ...

The classic postcard images of the Chilean capital of Santiago surrounded by the snow-covered Andes in winter now seem like ...

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 ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A team of researchers looked at changes in tree richness across the lowland and montane forests of the Andes and Amazon over the last four decades.

Where once there was ice, only rock remains. One of the glaciers in a chain of snow-capped mountains in the Colombian Andes has vanished due to high temperatures driven by climate change. Satellite ...

Researchers work in the field at Cerro Ballena near Caldera, Chile, as part of a study showing that an increase in volcanic activity in the Andes in the Late Miocene Epoch likely resulted in a cooling ...