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 ...

Often called the "people of the cloud forest," the Chachapoya lived in damp ... park was also created as a significant conservation area to protect plants and animals found nowhere else on Earth.

Aristos is a Newsweek science and health reporter with the London, U.K., bureau. He is particularly focused on archaeology and paleontology, although he has covered a wide variety of topics ranging ...

WHEN Nalini Nadkarni first ventured into the canopy of a cloud forest, almost nothing was known about this unique ecosystem. To explore it, she and a small group of pioneers had to develop special ...

A new species of long-tailed tiger-cat was recently discovered in South America, researchers said. Photo from Juan Orestes, UnSplash For years, an “elusive” feline creature lurked in the tropical ...

Payments for the provision of water by cloud forests for hydropower could produce income for countries and bolster the case for the forests’ protection, a new report reveals. These fog-laden forests ...

In the humid cloud forests of the Ecuadorian Andes - a dramatic landscape where enormous wax palms tower over moss-laden ground, and epiphytes, or plants that grow on other plants, appear to "cover ...

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 ...

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, an ...

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 ...