From the Mothman, Wampus Cat, and Raven Mocker to the Grafton and Flatwoods Monsters, the Appalachians are teeming with supernatural creatures. TikTok is flooded with stories of #hauntedappalachia.

A newly discovered metallic beetle thrives in the freezing cold of the Andes, showing how life adapts to extreme environments ...

Longyearbyen, Norway, and Ushuaia, Argentina, offer travelers the opportunity to see unspoiled landscapes, rare wildlife, and vast glacial ice—along with a spirit of endurance and camaraderie.

Peru’s geography spans three dramatic worlds: the Andes Mountains, the Pacific coastal deserts, and the vast Amazon basin.

High in the Ecuadorian Andes, where dense clouds settle over terraced fields and villages stitched into the mountainsides, a ...

An aerial view of Peru’s Moche Valley shows Chan Chan, a massive city constructed beginning in the early eleventh century A.D. by the rulers of the Kingdom of Chimor, leaders of a people known as the ...

DNA sequencing technology makes it possible to explore the genome to learn how humans adapted to live in a wide range of environments. Research has shown, for instance, that Tibetans living at high ...

Mountains are prominent landforms that rise high above the surrounding area. They usually have steep sides and a pointed or rounded top called a peak or summit. A mountain range is a group or chain of ...

Climate change is hitting mountain regions around the world “more intensely” than lowland areas, putting billions of people at risk. A major analysis from the University of Portsmouth has revealed how ...