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

Found in isolated pockets around the world from Japan to Chile, temperate rainforests are dense, damp, and teeming with life.

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 ...

Swathed in bright and beautiful colors, butterflies (Lepidoptera) are among the most diverse animals on the planet. There are almost 20,000 documented species of butterflies. Some of the most ...

The argument is that West Virginia doesn’t have the typical kind of rainforest like what is seen around the equator. Instead, some say that parts of West Virginia can be classified as temperate ...

The coastal temperate rainforests of the Pacific Northwest are incredibly biodiverse with thousands of species of mammals, birds, amphibians, fish and crustaceans.

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 ...

“Outside of the Pacific Northwest, temperate rainforests have, and continue to be, loosely defined and overlaid on eastern deciduous forests,” Eric Burkhart, program director of Appalachian ...

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 ...

Tongass is not only the largest temperate rain forest in the country, but the largest in the world.

Pennsylvania’s Ohiopyle State Park almost meets a common definition of a rainforest, but it falls just short on a key metric.

This Lesser-known Coastal Destination Has a Rainforest, 6 State Parks, and the Longest Drivable Beach in the U.S. The Long Beach Peninsula in Washington state has it all, from sandy beaches and ...