Orchids: Nature's masterpieces Ecuador is home to more than 4,000 orchid species, making it one of the richest countries for these plants. The cloud forests make for ideal conditions for orchids ...

Weird, rare mushrooms in Ecuador reveal secrets about life and loss of biodiversity The real world analog of "Common Side Effects" underscores the loss of biodiversity before we even know what's gone ...

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.

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 ...

A petition has been submitted to Ecuador’s copyright office to recognise Los Cedros cloud, an Ecuadorian forest roughly 15,000 acres (6,070 hectares) in size, as a co-creator of a musical ...

One of the largest modern plant extinction events was reported in the Andean hills of Ecuador 33 years ago. Yet, new research from a team of international ecologists, including two from the University ...

One of the largest modern plant extinction events was reported in the Andean hills of Ecuador 33 years ago. Yet, new research from a team of international ecologists, including two from the University ...

One of the most notorious mass extinction events in modern times occurred on a hilltop in coastal Ecuador in the 1980s. Ninety species of plants known from nowhere else on Earth—many of them new to ...