Hawaii’s Big Island is home to the Kona Cloud Forest, where cool weather, coffee and bamboo are in abundance.

A brand new species of snake has been discovered lurking in cloud forests of Ecuador. The new species is a type of coffee snake, and has been named the Tudor's Coffee Snake, or Ninia guytudori, in ...

Since 2018, El Tambor Project has been using assisted natural regeneration to restore native vegetation in a biodiverse and endemic species-rich cloud forest in the Venezuelan Andes. The project’s ...

The Golden Toad of Costa Rica’s Monteverde cloud forest, once abundant and brilliantly colored, declined rapidly after the late 1980s. A drying climate linked to El Niño, along with the spread of ...

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 ...

An expedition to one of Earth’s most remote corners yielded a remarkable new species, but the discovery comes with an urgent warning Imagine a forest so high, cold and remote that almost no scientist ...

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 ...

This footage follows a giant whipscorpion encountered in a dense cloud forest ecosystem where visibility is low and predators rely on surprise. Although it lacks a true venomous stinger, the animal ...

Situated in the mountains of Monteverde on nine acres of cloud forest, Hotel Belmar is a luxury eco-hotel with incredible views. Monteverde Cloud Forest Biological Reserve draws visitors from around ...

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.

CUNDINAMARCA, Colombia — Buying flowers on Valentine's Day is a classic gesture of love. But the beauty of these bouquets comes at a cost. In Colombia, high in the Andes Mountains, a delicate cloud ...