Warming is chasing cloud forests steadily uphill
Cloud forests are biodiversity hot spots and crucial water sources. But climate change and deforestation are shrinking their range, new data show.
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Douglas Fox is a freelance journalist based in northern California. He used to be funded by the Nationwide Science Foundation to commute to Antarctica from November 2019 to January 2020.
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