As an archipelago off the coast of Africa, Tenerife is the largest and most populous island in the Canary Islands. It boasts many of Spain’s records, like the tallest point, Mount Teide and the ...

In a March study reported on by El País, researchers found that hundreds of Mesoamerican plant species have been climbing mountains for decades. Rising global temperatures are the culprit. Using ...

This three-part Mongabay mini-series examines grassroots forest restoration projects carried out within isolated island ecosystems — whether those islands are surrounded by ocean as on the Big Island ...

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A cloud forest reserve was recently created in the Andes of southern Ecuador to help conserve the range-restricted Endangered Red-faced Parrot by improving its habitat connectivity. Endangered ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Payments for the provision of water by cloud forests for hydropower could produce income for countries and bolster the case for the forests’ ...

Biologist Ruben Dario Palacio is helping to study and preserve the cloud forests which are key to the water supply of his hometown of Cali, Colombia. Six of the seven rivers that run through Cali ...

In his time spent in the lush canopies of Costa Rica's cloud forest, UConn Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Ph.D. student Jeremy Quirós-Navarro has worked as an arborist, helped place ...

This video shows a dramatic mountain landscape in Laos, where steep green peaks rise above thick layers of low cloud and mist. The mountains have sharp ridges, exposed rock faces, and dense tropical ...

Researchers of Khamai Foundation and Liberty University have discovered a new species of coffee snake endemic to the cloud forests of northwestern Ecuador. Biologist Alejandro Arteaga first found the ...

An international team of botanists finds no proof of extinctions in Centinela, but abundant evidence that Centinela's flora lives on in the scattered remaining fragments of coastal Ecuador's forests.

Archaeologists with the World Monuments Fund uncovered over 100 previously unknown archaeological structures in Peru’s Rio Abiseo National Park. The area in and around the park was the home of the ...