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Monteverde, Costa Rica, has cloud forests, stunning eco-resorts, and treetop dining. Here's a full travel guide, featuring the best hotels and restaurants.
LA FORTUNA, Costa Rica – I slipped into the cool water at the base of the dazzling Fortuna waterfall and called to my family, watching from the rocks: “It’s warmer than Lake Erie!” ...
The weather station of the University of Costa Rica in Monteverde indicates that since 2017 the average temperature has ranged between 26.82°C maximum and 4.5°C minimum. It’s sad. For more than 20 ...
Costa Rica is an equatorial country and experiences a tropical climate with little difference in temperature between summer and winter. Temperatures are warm, averaging between 73 and 90 °F (23 and 32 ...
An inventory of the understory and canopy of 4 ha of lower montane cloud forest at Monteverde, Costa Rica, yielded 190 bryophyte species: 133 hepatics, 56 mosses and 1 hornwort. Thick branches of the ...
I just returned from a 10-day field study in Costa Rica with a group of students who are enrolled in my York College chemistry course focused on climate change and sustainability. In the classroom ...
Neotropical montane forests are characterized partially by their great abundance and high diversity of epiphytes. We vouchered a species list of vascular epiphytes from a four-hectare lower montane ...
MONTEVERDE (Costa Rica) — The "cloud forest" of Monteverde, in the center of Costa Rica, will soon no longer be worthy of the name. Climate change threatens this unique ecosystem, and its fauna ...