Vicuñas have a unique habit that is helping fight global warming As a result of global warming, glaciers are disappearing at an alarming rate, leaving behind arid and impoverished lands.

The vicuña, a wild relative of the llama, could help reestablish plants in barren areas where glaciers have melted, according to a recent study in the high Andes of Peru. As vicuñas tend to poop ...

Vicuña poop is helping ecosystems adapt to melting glaciers. An international collaboration of researchers led by senior author Steven Schmidt (University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA) has found that ...

Tim Johnson, associate professor of Spanish at Central College, has co-authored a new book, "Basques and Vicunas at the Mouth of Hell: A Documentary History of Potosi in ...