Only our headlamps light up the jungle, which is full of mysterious chirps and other noises coming out of the darkness. Our guide Estuardo Lima directs us to veer into a stream. We squelch along in ...

Visiting a cloud forest and traversing a gorgeous hanging bridge is one of the best things to do in Costa Rica for an unforgettable vacation. In the midst of Costa Rica's enchanting cloud forests is a ...

Most climbers learn on rock or at the gym, but 26-year-old American Noah Kane started with trees in Costa Rica, where he spent much of his childhood. He did not climb up the branches as a curious kid ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

High in the Peruvian Andes, where clouds cling to steep slopes and moss drapes every branch, archaeologists have mapped more than 100 hidden structures from a long-vanished city. The discovery, buried ...

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 ...

My giant cloud rainforest vivarium, Pantdora, has been constantly transforming since its creation. The plants, fungi, and animals are involved in an interdependent, never-ending biological cycle. But, ...