Climate change is hitting Costa Rica in a multitude of ways, including increasing the country’s risk from storms and natural disasters. But perhaps nowhere in the country are the effects of the changing environment felt more clearly than in the iconic Monteverde cloud forest reserve. As Michael Fox reports from Monteverde, the clouds are lifting in this previously rain-drenched place, which is causing species to disappear.
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