The páramo covers slopes above 10,000 feet in elevation all over the Andes Mountains, and acts like a giant sponge absorbing moisture.

Shrinking Andean glaciers threaten water supplies for 90 million people, with near-total ice loss possible by 2100 unless ...

Getty Images/iStockphoto Throughout the cloud forests of the Ecuadorian Andes, researchers hung nearly ... biogeographic region of Ecuador and Colombia — a biodiverse region home to a massive ...

DURHAM, N.C., April 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S.-based nonprofit Saving Nature has secured 865 acres in Colombia's Western Andes—an urgent step to protect one of the most biologically rich and ...