Freshwater essential to lithium mining is running low in the world’s “Lithium Triangle,” a mineral-rich region in the Andean Plateau that stretches across parts of Argentina, Bolivia and Chile and ...

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, grassy ...

A high Andean plateau in Bolivia has turned out to be one of the most crowded dinosaur crossroads ever found, with at least 18,000 fossilized footprints pressed into a single slab of ancient shoreline ...

(Edsel Querini/iStock/Getty Images) For thousands of years, humans living high in the Argentinian Andes have relied on drinking water that would make most people deathly ill. There, naturally ...

The Puna Plateau in northwestern Argentina was uplifted by about two kilometers between 13 and 9 million years ago. Credit: Heiko Pingel The Puna Plateau in northwestern Argentina was uplifted by ...

TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Nov. 15, 2016) - Plateau Uranium Inc. ("Plateau Uranium" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:PLU)(FRANKFURT:QG1) is pleased to announce the acceptance and approval by ...

And it's been happening for millions of years. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Earth's crust is dripping "like honey" into our ...

Our hiking group had reached the highest point of our trek through the Andes to Machu Picchu. Now, our guide was leading us in a Quechua ritual. We took turns placing stones in an “apacheta” pyramid ...