Apparently, a recent mass extinction event in South America never actually happened. For four decades, it was believed that a […] ...
One of our favourite spots in the gardens is the Cloud Forest. Imagine a colossal 58m-tall glass dome with not a single ...
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 ...
Nestled in the misty highlands of Costa Rica's Cordillera de Tilarán, the Santa Elena Cloud Forest Reserve is a breathtaking natural wonder that cap ...
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 ...
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 ...