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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Maps show the distribution of tropical montane cloud forests, as estimated using cloud cover data from satellites. Satellites that observe the Earth provide many types of data about the planet's ...

New research suggests that humans inhabited the rainforests of West Africa roughly 150,000 years ago, providing new insights ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...