Shaun Marcott’s team has discovered that tropical glaciers in the Andes Mountains are now smaller than they have been at any point since the last ice age, approximately 12,000 years ago. This finding ...

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.

The glaciers high in the Andes Mountains are melting fast—and scientists say this threatens the water supply of over 90 ...

Scientists are warning that the glaciers high up in the Andes Mountains are melting fast—and this could put the water supply ...

High in the Andes Mountains, glaciers have fed life for centuries. Their frozen stores of water support millions of people ...

This is how the mountains of the Himalayas in Asia were formed. The Andes are the world's longest mountain range. This causes lava to erupt out of the gap that is left. As it cools down ...

Originally from France, he divides his time between the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and the Andes of Chile ... first-hand knowledge of the effects of climate change on watersheds.

Climate change is raising air temperatures causing more frequent and severe extreme weather events, decreasing snowfall and increasing droughts across the Andes, all of which are threatening the ...

A Peruvian farmer who says German energy giant RWE's emissions have contributed to the melting of Andean glaciers, increasing ...

From the Andes to the Hindu Kush Himalaya, UNESCO warns that many of the planet’s glaciers are melting at unprecedented rates ...