“Your mission,” he told him, “is to care for, study, and protect the Polylepis forests of the Andes.” Aucca was taken aback. Aucca’s Quechua surname means “warrior,” but at that ...

"The Peruvian Andes are not prepared for wildfires," warns ... extensive experience studying wildfire impacts on Mediterranean forests, which have developed resilience strategies due to their ...

Along the highest points of the Andes, the rolling mountaintops can get cold. Animals there, including small amphibians far ...

Deep in a tropical Ecuadorean Andes forest shrouded in darkness and mist, a future Case Western Reserve doctoral student and her biologist husband made an intriguing discovery: a nickel-sized frog ...

But the beauty of these bouquets comes at a cost. In Colombia, high in the Andes Mountains, a delicate cloud forest is being chipped away at, fragmented and polluted, say environmentalists in the ...

soar via zipline through the canopy of the world’s largest rain forest, the Amazon, covering nearly half of the country; and trek into the highlands of the cloud-topped Andes, the second highest ...