Deep within the cloud forests of the San Martín region of Peru lie two places so high, cold and remote that they remained virtually unexplored for decades. In 2022, and again in 2025, monitors from ...

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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 ...

By Liz Kimbrough Up in the misty mountains, teems a kaleidoscope of life: trees drip with epiphytes, hummingbirds sip from ...

Translating to "green mountain" in Spanish, Monteverde is a haven for ecotourism on Costa Rica’s central Pacific coast. Home to thousands of plants and more than 400 bird species, like the elusive ...

Alameda’s status as home to a nonprofit institute devoted to maintaining a Costa Rican cloud forest just may be the Island’s best kept secret. Alameda Comedy shows go on in a new form after club’s ...

When I was young, I stood in a Costa Rican mountain cloud forest, desperately trying to find a resplendent quetzal with its dazzling plumage. Yet, a male bird had been perching in a tree 15 yards away ...

For those who have a hard time saying goodbye to the vibrant flowers of summer, a fall visit to San Francisco Botanical Garden's (SFBG) Mesoamerican Cloud Forest is a chance to discover the vivid ...

Long-tailed, neon green and among Costa Rica’s greatest wildlife wonders, the resplendent quetzal is an aptly named bird — and easily found in the central cloud forests of San Gerardo de Dota.

Cloud forests, like the Kona Cloud Forest on the west side of Hawaii Island, are in jeopardy. Global warming is one culprit, and another is land clearing for development by landowners unaware of the ...