Alpacas are small camelid mammals raised by the ancient Incas in South America over 6000 years ago. Kept in herds, alpacas made their dainty way among the mountains of Peru, Chile, and Bolivia, where ...

Every year, over 1,000 lives are lost on Peru’s mountain roads, BBC Earth Explore has reported in a video documenting the route. The short documentary follows a bus driver named Glorioso as he ...

An international genomics study has revealed that early Asians undertook humanity's longest known prehistoric migration. These early humans, who roamed the earth over 100,000 years ago, are believed ...

The ocean hides mountains older than dinosaurs. Harder to explore than space, its depths hold ancient secrets the scientists ...

These training opportunities and expeditions — from King George Island in Antarctica to the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard in the Arctic, and from the Andes to the eastern Tibetan Plateau — are ...

The statement concluded with a call for the Sagarmatha Sambaad to drive action, not just dialogue. Nepal urged the global ...

An international team of scientists has managed to reconstruct the longest prehistoric journey ever undertaken by humans, ...

Fifty years after Bruce Chatwin embarked on his ‘peculiar, dotty’ bestseller, the South American wilderness still calls ...

It is another steamy morning in Puerto Maldonado, and Gabriel Granados Olivera and I are sitting on a low-slung motorized ...

High up in the mountains, in a rocky world left behind by melting glaciers, life finds an unlikely jumpstart—thanks to poop.

An international genomics study led by scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) at the ...

Inside the emotional and physical toll of holding it in.