According to color psychology, this soothing shade helps decrease stress and improve focus—and travelers can reap these much-deserved benefits in lush landscapes around the world. Here are 10 of the ...

How much is a rain forest worth? Until recently the answer was: virtually nothing. A tropical rain forest provides habitat for untold species of animals and varieties of plants; modulates the climate ...

Wooden brdige in the hiking loop around Ward Lake, Tongass National Forest. “The Tongass National Forest makes up over 90 percent of Southeast Alaska,” says Peter Nave, owner and lead guide of Wild ...

A. The rain forest project -- A-1. Radioecology at the Puerto Rico Nuclear Center / H.J. Gomberg -- A-2. The rain forest and man : an introduction / Howard T. Odum -- B. The rain forest at El Verde -- ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rain forest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate change. A ...

Rebecca Patterson thought that Olympic National Park’s Hoh Rain Forest would be the perfect place to elope. The self-described “moss and lichen aficionado” was fond of waterfall hikes close to her ...

A popular destination in the Olympic National Park has been closed with no timeline for reopening. Because the Upper Hoh Rain Forest Road is the only route to the rainforest’s trailheads, its closure ...

In December, the one road leading to Olympic National Park’s Hoh Rain Forest, the quietest place in the country, closed indefinitely due to washout damage. Local agencies were having trouble securing ...

Just in time for sunshine and warmer weather, visitors may get a chance to return to the mossy Hoh Rain Forest in Olympic National Park before summer begins. Repairs on the damaged Upper Hoh Road, the ...

A road closure threatens access to Olympic National Park’s Hoh Rainforest this summer. Courtesy Jefferson County Public Works After a months-long closure, Jefferson County has secured some of the ...