An image captured by NASA’s Terra satellite is giving us a new and stunning look at how a rare snowfall cloaked the Atacama ...

Discover Peru’s rich landscapes and cultural heritage in stunning 4K, featuring the Andes mountains, Amazon rainforests, and ...

On June 25, 2025, an extraordinary sight unfolded over the Atacama Desert, the driest place on Earth. A rare snowfall ...

This is a pattern repeated across the Andes. Farther north, the mountains host more than 95 per cent of the world’s tropical glaciers, which are thinning more quickly than those in Alaska ...

Satellite images from July 2020 and this year show a marked decrease in snow cover. That is mirrored in water level measurements for rivers. ... Andes Mountains, Snowfall, Climate Change.

Aerial view of the Andes mountain range, near the border between Chile and Argentina, on January 29, 2013. PABLO PORCIUNCULA/AFP/Getty Images.

The prevailing view is that the Andes became a mountain range between ten to six million years ago when a huge volume of rock dropped off the base of Earth's crust in response to over-thickening ...

The 3,500-year-old city, named Peñico, is believed to have served as a key trading hub connecting early Pacific coast communities with those living in the Andes mountains and Amazon basin.