With water dropping 150 meters (490 feet) through a thick patch of cloud forest, San Rafael Waterfall was one of Ecuador’s most captivating landscapes and attracted tens of thousands of visitors per year. But on February 2, the water stopped flowing. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/disappearance-ecuador-san-rafael-waterfall…
Tag: Andes mountains
Red sprites over the Andes
Photographer Yuri Beletsky captured red sprites flashing over the Chilean Andes Mountains. Source: https://earthsky.org/todays-image/red-sprites-andes-yuri-beletsy-photo…
Amazon fires quickening glacier melting in Andes
The burning rainforest releases black carbon into the atmosphere, which, according to a growing number of scientific studies, directly contributes to the melting of glaciers. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/amazon-fires-glaciers-andes-melt-even-faster…
Disappearing Peruvian glaciers
Glaciers are melting in areas across the globe. But glacier loss in the Peruvian Andes is happening particularly rapidly. New research reports a reduction of almost 30% between 2000 and 2016. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/disappearing-peruvian-glaciers…
Machu Picchu was purposely built on fault lines
New research has suggested that Machu Picchu’s location on intersecting fault lines is no coincidence. Built high up in the Andes Mountains by the Inc… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/330776/machu-picchu-was-purposely-built-on-fault-lines…
Ice spires hint at potential for life on Pluto
The existence of algae high up in the Andes Mountains hints at the possibility of life on distant, icy worlds. Wherever there is liquid water, there i… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/328921/ice-spires-hint-at-potential-for-life-on-pluto…
An ancient pouch reveals the hallucinogen stash of an Andes shaman
South American shamans in the Andes Mountains carried mind-altering ingredients 1,000 years ago, a study finds. Source: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ancient-pouch-reveals-hallucinogen-stash-andes-shaman4…