Learn how new research challenges the age of Monte Verde and what it means for early human migration in South America.

New research led by a University of Wyoming archaeologist near an ancient encampment in South America challenges a relatively new but widely accepted theory that the people who made and used Clovis ...

For decades, the strongest evidence for the earliest human settlement in the Americas came from a site in Chile called Monte Verde. Scientists found echoes of hu ...

President José Antonio Kast’s pledge to ease environmental regulations to boost investment threatens to have unintended consequences for Chile — pushing up borrowing costs in a nation that has ...

Heavy, localized rainfall in key Chilean fruit regions has disrupted harvesting and raised quality concerns for late-season ...

A pioneering accord meant to give Indigenous communities more of a say over lithium mining has left people in the Atacama desert divided like never before ...

Scientists made a surprising wildlife discovery in the world’s driest desert. Tiny soil-dwelling nematodes are not just surviving but thriving high in the Chilean mountains. The findings suggest that ...

Scientists disagree whether human-made climate change or natural fluctuations are mostly to blame for worse-than-expected heat in recent years ...