Irregular rainfall distribution over the past ten million years has influenced the shape of the Andes mountain range, according to a Swiss geology professor. The result is that the western side of the ...

The common view of the Amazon is that it is one massive, unbroken forest. This impression is given by maps which tend to mark the Amazon by a large glob of green or even by its single name which doesn ...

GSA TODAY looks at individual mineral grains as key to understanding the rise of the Andes. Highlights on these and other topics are provided below. Representatives of the media may obtain ...

High in the Andes Mountains of Peru, villagers have long reported a strange, haunting sound that rises during earthquakes — a ...

AbstractNew zircon trace-element concentration data and U-Pb geochronology on gneisses from Colombia’s Central Cordillera at 6°N allow for the recognition of the distinct Anacona suspect terrane ...

250 years ago on this day German explorer, naturalist and author Alexander von Humboldt was born in Berlin. Encouraged by his father, the young Humboldt collected plants, insects and pebbles in the ...

AbstractPrevious work has ascribed a cosmic impact origin to black, high-temperature, carbon-encrusted beds (2–3 cm thick), associated with the Younger Dryas readvance of ice at 12.8 ka during the ...

An aerial view of the Andes mountains in Argentina. (Credit: Nicolas Prieto/Unsplash) There’s only one place on the planet where you can see flamingos roaming salt flats, vicuñas grazing in herds and ...

Devil in the Mountain is the fascinating story of geologist Simon Lamb's quest to understand how the high Andes formed. It includes a wealth of real-life, even harrowing, anecdotes of fieldwork, mixed ...

Trump’s tariffs expose weakness of Switzerland’s economic independence Read more: Trump’s tariffs expose weakness of Switzerland’s economic independence How Trump is manoeuvring Switzerland closer to ...