Venezuela had six glaciers spanning 10 square km in the Sierra Nevada de Mérida mountain range but lost five of them by 2011. Climate scientists found that the last Humboldt glacier shrunk to an ...

The Andes mountain range is the longest in the world and has some of the fastest-disappearing ice packs. Venezuela was the first country to lose its last glacier this past May.

Researchers from the University of Colorado, Boulder, discovered that plants have started to emerge in the otherwise barren ...

The Andes mountains span over 4,300 miles along South America's western edge, traversing seven countries from Venezuela to Chile. Famous for its towering peaks like Aconcagua and ancient ruins such as ...

Researchers hiked into the Andes mountains of northwestern Venezuela several times in 2021 to search for reptiles, according to a study published March 14 in the peer-reviewed journal Academia ...

Established as Seminario de San Buenaventura in 1785, Venezuela’s University of the Andes is one of the oldest and largest higher education institutions in the country. Second only to the Central ...

Located in northwest Venezuela along part of the Andes Mountains, storms tend to form over Lake Maracaibo at night, as cool mountain breezes converge over the warm, moist air over the lake.

The Tiwanaku civilization thrived high in the Andes Mountains long before the Inca Empire started. Located near Lake Titicaca in Bolivia, the millennia-old city of Tiwanaku was built almost 13,000 ...

On a clear day, Chile's towering 5,400-meter (17,700-foot) El Plomo mountain can be seen from the capital, Santiago. The glacier-capped Andean peak has been climbed and revered for centuries, with ...