Researchers from Boston College have recently proven that glaciers in the Andes have shrunk to beyond prehistoric levels, ...

Mount Chimborazo in Ecuador could be considered higher than Everest by one measure. But it’s way more within reach — ...

Renowned as one of the driest places on the planet outside of the polar regions, this desert owes its extreme dryness to its ...

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The owners spent $73,000 on the land, plus another $475,000 building their vacation house.

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The solution will provide detailed 3D subsurface imaging of the Brecha Principal and Agua Amarga resource areas at the ...

This ‘cryosphere’ includes the great polar ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica, sea and lake ice, permafrost, mountain glaciers and semi-permanent ... retreating Qolqepunku Glacier in the Peruvian ...

an inactive stratovolcano in the Cordillera Occidental range of the Ecuadorian Andes. When measured from sea level, Chimborazo is about 8,500 feet shorter than Everest at 20,548 feet (6,263 meters).