As the Earth faces unprecedented climate change, a look into the planet's deep past may provide vital insights into what may ...

These convergent boundaries also occur where a plate of ocean dives ... eruptions such as those that formed some of the mountains in the Andes of South America. At ocean-ocean convergences ...

I got altitude psychosis a few hundred meters from high camp as I scaled the frigid face of Huayna Potosí, one of the highest mountains in the Bolivian Andes. My optimism, my determination ...

Wainstein noted that the Andes, the world’s longest mountain range, is home to about 99% of the world’s tropical glaciers, which are particularly susceptible to climate change because they ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

This is all part of a newly discovered class of plate tectonics ... in the formation of the Arizaro Basin in the Andes Mountains of South America, suggesting that the phenomenon of lithospheric ...

Tiny minerals are revolutionizing our understanding of geology. Easter Island consists of several extinct volcanoes. The ...

Located in the Andes mountain range of Argentina and near the border with Chile, Aconcagua receives environmental protection as part of the Aconcagua Provincial Park - a protected area known for ...

Plate tectonics, the theory that underpins Earth's geological activity, shapes our planet with mountains, shifting continents ...

In 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 carrying 45 people, including a rugby team from Montevideo, crashed in the Andes mountains. It would take 72 days for rescuers to learn the fate of the ...

Mountain Dew is dropping the "MTN" abbreviation it took on in 2009 and bringing back the full "Mountain" to the brand name. PepsiCo They’re dewing it again. Mountain Dew revealed their “new ...