Andean cloud forests endangered by climate change

August 21, 2006

(AP) -- On the crest of the eastern Andes is an expansive vista of one of the most diverse forests on Earth. Storm clouds boil up in the pink evening sky, and fog advances over the foothills, suffusing the mountains with the moisture that makes them so astonishingly full of life.

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