For four decades, it was believed that a large-scale plant extinction event took place in a tropical cloud forest in Ecuador ... the extinction of these unique plants. The event became known ...

A cloud forest in Ecuador could be recognised as an author: the latest development in a burgeoning global movement to grant legal rights to nature. The More-Than-Human-Life (Moth) Project ...

In the 1980s, the mass extinction of 90 flora species occurred in a cloud forest when a coastal Ecuadorian ... need to protect endangered rainforest plants. However, an international team of ...

Isolated and hard-to-reach, cloud forests ... s land is a type of forest shrouded in perpetual mist and fog; where ancient trees stand tall against slopes covered in rare plants, and creatures ...

This kind of forest functions like “a sponge” with extra soil, moss and plants piled high in the trees — and thick layers of leaves and twigs on the ground. “The cloud forest is a giant ...

QUITO, Ecuador— In an unprecedented case, the Constitutional Court of Ecuador has applied the constitutional provision on the “Rights of Nature” to safeguard the Los Cedros cloud forest from mining ...

What's more, Monteverde Cloud Forest is home to more than 2% of the world's biodiversity and 10% of its plants are endemic to the preserve. With its unique setting, Monteverde is one of the most ...

Researchers in China have assessed the impact of using up to 50% of the Sahara desert for the deployment of large scale solar power plants and have found these may impact the global cloud cover ...