The Pacific Northwest temperate rainforests, which range from northern California to British Colombia, exist in what is the world's largest temperate rainforest ecoregion. It receives more than 55 ...

Found in isolated pockets around the world from Japan to Chile, temperate rainforests are dense, ... The Pacific rainforests are so productive that even dead trees contribute to the landscape.

The Pacific Coast rainforest as a whole stores more carbon per unit area than any other forest in the world, and it represents more than one-third of remaining temperate rainforests worldwide, the ...

But rainforests also exist in temperate regions. Over Memorial Day Weekend I visited one of these non-tropical rainforests: the temperate rainforest of the Olympic Peninsula in the state of […] ...

Temperate rainforests like those of Scandinavia and the Pacific Northwest contain the densest accumulation of above-ground carbon in the world, with up to 1500 tonnes per hectare. Storage beneath the ...

This coastal temperate rainforest is characterized by its proximity to both ocean and mountains. Abundant rainfall results when the atmospheric flow of moist air off the Pacific collides with the ...

The most scientific and up-to-date treatment of North American forest types is this [U.S. Forest Service atlas], and note that there are no designated temperate rainforests outside of the Pacific ...

The most scientific and up-to-date treatment of North American forest types is [the U.S. Forest Service atlas], and note that there are no designated temperate rainforests outside of the Pacific ...