Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new modeling study of the Southern Andes shows that if a megadrought like Chile’s current one strikes again near the end of this ...

It’s a rare sight to witness a glacier break apart and fall into the sea. But a handful of people were lucky enough to witness the extraordinary phenomena, recently, at the Bruggen Glacier in Chile. A ...

SANTIAGO, Chile -- Researchers in Chile released a series of time-lapse photos Wednesday showing the dramatic retreat of a glacier in Patagonia. The Jorge Montt Glacier is shrinking faster than any ...

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My name is Millie Spencer, and I am a 3rd year PhD candidate in the Geography Department. I am currently on a Fulbright Award studying glacier retreat and its downstream impacts in south-central Chile ...

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) – Police in Chile say they’ve stopped cold a scheme to steal ice from a disappearing glacier. The plan was to deliver five tons of ice carved out of icebergs from the Jorge Montt ...

The hike was unlike anything Brett Storoe had ever done. The Naperville native was used to hiking on flat terrain in Illinois with his family, but this time he was in Chile trudging up an ice stupa — ...

Melting glaciers may be setting the stage for more frequent and explosive volcanic eruptions in the future. This is the conclusion of a study of six volcanoes in the Chilean Andes, which is being ...

Eleven Experience’s Rio Palena Lodge is a remote retreat hidden in the Andes, where I helicoptered to glaciers few travelers have ever visited. As the helicopter dipped down around a mountain peak in ...

The high mountains of central Chile look solid and eternal, but their ice is in trouble. For fifteen years, the country has endured a stubborn megadrought, and glaciers have quietly carried much of ...