"We like to see them." Because of the climate, there are a lot of tree farms around the area - from St. Cloud to St. Joseph to Rice. Founded in 1981, the Petersen family's farm offers cut-your-own ...

They’re also home to forests of lesser-known but critically important polylepis – known as “cloud trees.” Growing up to 5,000 meters above sea level, they are the highest-altitude trees in ...

With his Samsung Galaxy S24 smartphone he captured the tree’s bare limbs which were silhouetted against the oncoming storm. The black branches stand out against the dramatic roiling clouds ...

‘In lowland cloud forests, the trees which provided water for clouds to form don’t exist anymore, being lost to deforestation, so the atmosphere is growing dryer — less water then hits the ...