Ten thousand years ago, mastodons vanished from South America. With them, an ecologically vital function also disappeared: ...

Adam Vengosh Weinthal (left) and Gordon Williams collect surface brines from the salt crust of the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia.

As the world focuses on repairing damaged ecosystems, especially with the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration and new EU ...

Scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery in Antarctica, uncovering an ancient ecosystem hidden beneath the ice for ...

Salmon farming is big business in Chile, and the U.S. is one of its largest markets. Yet the fish are not native, and ...

Flying more than 13,000 kilometres each way from Chile to Alaska to breed and raise its young, the Hudsonian godwit sometimes flies for a week without stopping. Migratory animals like the godwit ...

Rodrigo Hucke-Gaete and Universidad Austral de Chile to train local community members in monitoring local ecosystems and biodiversity. This will empower the community to conduct periodic ...

In the depths of a Chilean rainforest stands the 'Gran Abuelo,' an approximately 5,400-year-old tree fighting for survival. A highway project now threatens its existence — and the ecosystem ...

Chile has a national plan to increase production even more. But this boom has reshaped the fragile Atacama ecosystem as well as the life of the 18 Indigenous settlements — which are home to the ...