Paleostress modeling shows how a region of the Andean Plateau was uplifted and formed beginning more than 20 million years ago.

The Andean Plateau covers much of Bolivia and parts of Peru, Chile and Argentina. Its average height is more than 12,000 feet, and though it is smaller than Asia's Tibetan Plateau, different ...

Stormy winds, frosty nights and a scorching midday sun make life difficult on the Andean plateau, but the docile, tough-natured llama is one reason why indigenous people have been able to survive ...

The scientists state that the pacemaker of canyon incision into the Andean Plateau was a previously documented change towards global cooling that resulted from a change in sea surface temperatures.

On an expedition to the Central Andean Plateau, researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) and colleagues were astounded to find a huge fossil-tree buried in the cold ...

The Central Andean Plateau consists of the Puna and Altiplano plateaus — a roughly 1,120-mile-long (1,800 kilometers), 250-mile-wide (400 km) expanse that stretches from northern Peru through ...

Traversing the high desert of the Andean plateau — from 11,000 to 15,000 feet — in Bolivia’s southwest had long been at the top of my bucket list.

A journey across Bolivia’s Andean Plateau makes for a “downright psychedelic” experience.

CARVING CANYONS Climate change that brought more rain to the northeastern Andean Plateau triggered the erosion that carved the area’s canyons (Peru’s Rio San Gaban canyon shown), geologists ...

Humans moved into the Andes about 15,000 years ago and their introduction of regular fire to the landscape created a new ecosystem, research published in Nature Communications finds.