The potato is one of the world's food staples, first cultivated thousands of years ago in the Andes region of South America ...

One person is dead and five people remain trapped after a mine collapsed in Chile. The mine collapsed after the U.S.

Nine million years ago, in the shadow of the rising Andes Mountains, a key ancestor of the beloved modern-day potato was born ...

A chance encounter between a wild tomato and a potato-like plant 9 million years ago is why we have modern-day potatoes, ...

What do you get when a tomato and a tuber-less plant meet in the Andes? A potato, nature’s starchy lovechild and one of ...

Archaeologists must have one of the coolest jobs ever—as long as a lifetime of digging around in the dirt yields some epic ...

The soil in high-elevation, cooler, drier tropical forests in the Colombian Andes stores more carbon from fires than lower, ...

From July 13 to 15, 2025, HDry athlete Dani Arnold, together with Alexander Huber and Simon Gietl, completed an extraordinary ...

The starchy vegetable emerged 9 million years ago in the forming Andes mountains — a result of natural interbreeding between an ancient tomato plant and potato-like species that lacked the engorged ...

After diving into the poles, it’s time to shift our focus to two of the world’s most iconic mountain ranges,the Andes and the Himalayas. As someone who’s spent much of my life near the towering peaks ...

Heavy but wet: Nevados de Chillán grabs 14–20″ Wednesday night plus another 5–8″ Thursday day for storm totals of 19–28″ (SLR ...

They made the sacrifice for others.” Unidentified survivors who were found two months after the Uruguayan plane crashed into the Andes mountains in Chile are seen, Dec. 1972.