A hot blob of rock beneath New Hampshire may be helping the Appalachian Mountains stand so tall. The rock mass is slowly on the move, headed one day for New York.

Glaciar Perito Moreno was once considered a rarity: one of Patagonia’s only stable glaciers. But scientists have found the ...

Utility AES Andes has started construction on two renewable energy projects in Chile, with a combined 1.3GW of capacity.

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Scientists have traced the potato's origin back nine million years, revealing it arose from a chance hybridization between a ...

A chance encounter between a wild tomato and a potato-like plant 9 million years ago is why we have modern-day potatoes, ...

The potato is one of the world's food staples, first cultivated thousands of years ago in the Andes region of South America ...

About nine million years ago, a hybridization involving the lineage of another farmers market star gave rise to the ...

LIMA, Peru -- A bus traveling from Lima to Peru’s Amazon region overturned on a highway in the Andes Mountains, leaving at least 18 people dead and 48 injured, authorities said Friday.

Rescue teams work at the deadly bus crash site in the Andes Mountains. Photo / X A bus plunged into a ravine in the Peruvian Andes on Friday, killing at least 18 passengers, a health official said.

A devastating bus accident in Peru’s Andes mountains has claimed the lives of at least 18 people and left 48 others injured, officials confirmed on Friday. The accident occurred in the early ...