This myth acknowledges the great importance that coca leaves had, and continue to have, in the culture and history of the people of the Andes. Despite gaining notoriety in modern times for being ...

The water security of the millions of people who live in the foothills of the Andes is also at risk. Constantino Aucca Chutas, a Peruvian biologist whose grandparents were farmers from the ...

In Incan mythology, Mama Koka was the god of the coca plant which originally grew from her torn apart body. Today, coca ...

After a plane carrying a Uruguayan rugby team and its loved ones crashed in the Andes Mountains in 1972, 16 people managed to survive for 72 days, surrounded by snow and ice. "It's totally ...

Eat what you want, but stop preaching about it, and it surely can't hurt to leave some Andean quinoa for the people of the Andes. [Yahoo] Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week.

But the 'Andes monster' made a mistake when he wanted ... the affable English GP who killed 235 people.

In parts of the Andes and other mountain ranges, including the Rocky Mountains, many people depend on mountain snow and glacier runoff for water. It is estimated that shrinking glaciers and snow ...