GCP News

March 26, 2012

• 8:10am

  on Mongabay News

  Cloud forests may be particularly vulnerable to climate change

  Mexico could lose nearly 70 percent of its cloud forests due to climate change by 2080, according to new research published in Nature Climate Change, that has implications for cloud forests worldwide.

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