Exploring the cloudiest forest in Central America
The Fortuna Hydrological Reserve hosts one third of Panama’s tree species, a variety of fungi waiting to be discovered and a great potential to offset global warming
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Fungi Expert Is on a Mission to Protect Global Natural Underground Networks
The youngest woman to receive the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, evolutionary biologist Toby Kiers was also the youngest student on Barro Colorado Island when she first burrowed underground into the fascinating and complex world of fungi
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How Even the Smallest Organisms Can Shape Entire Ecosystems and Inspire Lasting Change
From sonic tomographies to global biodiversity negotiations, this journey through research, resilience, and connection reveals how small organisms, death and decay bring about new life
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Barro Colorado Island, One Hundred Years of Science and Discoveries
Five Panamanian scientists share a glance at the experience of working in the tropical biologist’s dream, Barro Colorado Island
