For four decades, it was believed that a large-scale plant extinction event took place in a tropical cloud forest in Ecuador. However, a team of researchers led by Dawson M. White from Harvard ...

Cloud forests are biodiversity hot spots and crucial water sources. But climate change and deforestation are shrinking their range, new data show.

The 58-metre tall glass-clad structure offers visitors a chance to escape the tropical heat, and also aims to generate awareness of the dire state of cloud forests around the world. Step into the ...

The Cloud Forest’s climate aims to replicate misty tropical mountains, which are cooler than the local area, so jets of vapor and spray from the waterfall work together to create the attraction ...

seasonal deciduous forest, tropical cloud forest, and mangrove forest. These sub-biomes develop due to changes in seasonal patterns of rainfall, elevation and/or substrate. Located north and south ...

But human-induced climate change, including altered patterns of temperature, precipitation, and cloud cover, will certainly strongly affect tropical forests. This means that in the tropics ...

Tropical rainforests play a vital role in global climate regulation and biodiversity conservation. However, a major new study ...

Monteverde Cloud Forest is located in northern Puntarenas ... run by Costa Rica's Tropical Science Center.

A new report from Earth Security, a global specialist in climate and nature-based assets, founded and run by Alejandro, finds that most of the world’s cloud forests are concentrated in just 25 ...

The study, published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, identifies cloud–radiation feedback as the dominant source behind these differences. Reliable projections of the tropical Pacific SST ...