The queuña forests in Peru, once covering vast stretches of the mountains, have dwindled to a mere fraction of their former glory, leaving behind a landscape where biodiversity and water security hang ...

Photo from Edgar Lehr via Lehr, Lundberg, Cusi, Sites Jr., Torres and Aguilar-Puntriano (2025) On a mountain ridge in Peru, a 1-foot-long creature with a venomous bite sat in the afternoon sun.

There has been a huge push to plant native trees across the Andes in recent years. And it’s been a success. This is episode 23 of Stories of Resistance, in honor of Earth Day.

Peru’s Marañón River was made a legal person, granting it the rights to be free-flowing and free of contamination. Mari Luz ...

During a rich epoch in women's mountaineering, we examine Dora Keen’s 1912 ascent of 4,996m Mount Blackburn in Alaska, the fifth-highest peak in the U.S.