A flurry of seismic activity that caused 160 quakes in just two hours at the Laguna del Maule volcanic field in central Chile ...

(Some volcanoes are still active ... the first in a stream of European adventurers and naturalists drawn to the Andes' soaring peaks and clear skies. To this day, tourists still flock to the ...

ALARMING reports of vast showers of volcanic ash from eruptions of Descabezado and other recent volcanoes of the group which occurs on the chain of the Andes south of Santiago de Chile, appeared ...

attracted mostly to the ski centres along the Andes Mountains and to Patagonia. Ecuador's Tungurahua volcano (‘throat of fire’ in indigenous Quechua language) spewed red-hot rock and ash ...

The Andes run for over 7,000km. Other mountains (usually those that stand on their own) are created by ancient volcanoes. Ben Nevis in Scotland was once a very large active volcano. It last ...