
Tropical Andes: Why It’s the Most Biodiverse Place on Earth
There’s a ridge in the Tropical Andes where, in the span of a single morning’s walk, you can pass through five distinct ecosystems. You start

There’s a ridge in the Tropical Andes where, in the span of a single morning’s walk, you can pass through five distinct ecosystems. You start

From the air, the pattern is unmistakable. Vast grids of uniform green oil palm plantations stretching to the horizon, interrupted by the occasional brown scar

Walk into the Daintree and you feel the age before you understand it. The light comes through in broken shafts. The canopy is so layered

Picture the Earth 20,000 years ago. Not the world we know, oceans teeming, forests breathing, rivers threading through green continents, but something quieter and colder.

Imagine standing at the edge of what used to be forest. The trees are gone. In their place, a cold, dry plain stretches to the