Outside of a handful of valleys in Antarctica, the Atacama is the driest place on Earth. The inhospitable landscape of sand, ...

What happens when a team of scientists and local Awajún guides go on a 38-day trip into the Alto Mayo region of Peru? Over ...

The mission of the Department of Physical Geography is to be at the forefront of research in Earth Surface Dynamics. Our knowledge and understanding of Earth’s continental and coastal systems ...

Our Geography BSc combines physical and human geography, addressing urgent global issues including climate change, migration, geopolitics and urban development. You will benefit from field trips, a ...

U.S. enduro racer Marco "Randy" Osborne and Ella Conolly of Scotland took first-places overall for the Pro Men’s and Pro Women's categories at the 2025 Andes Pacifico enduro race, held Jan. 14 ...

Google Maps will display the name “Gulf of America” instead of the “Gulf of Mexico” for U.S. users once official government sources are updated to reflect the name change ordered by ...

Google says it will update its popular maps service to reflect any official ... McKinley to North America's highest peak, Denali. The mountain has been the subject of a long-running naming dispute.

A nearly 6,000-year-old forest is once again seeing daylight after millennia hidden under ice in the Rocky Mountains. A team of scientists from Montana State University, the U.S. Geological ...

Climate change is melting away glaciers around the world, but in the Andes Mountains, a wild relative of the llama is helping local ecosystems adapt to these changes by dropping big piles of dung.

Two enormous continent-sized mountains 100 times taller than Everest are hidden thousands of kilometres beneath the Earth’s surface, according to new research that has left experts stunned.

A melting ice patch in the Rocky Mountains uncovered an ancient forest, and these trees have stories to tell about dynamic landscapes and climate change. Melting ice high up in the Rocky Mountains ...

Andean Condor flying high. Image by Thomas Fuhrmann - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=118676119 The Andean Condor, known ...