The Golden Toad of Costa Rica’s Monteverde cloud forest, once abundant and brilliantly colored, declined rapidly after the late 1980s. A drying climate linked to El Niño, along with the spread of ...
Among the last photos taken of the golden toad in Costa Rica in 1978. (Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) A beautiful golden toad which lived in the cloud forest of Costa Rica ...
Scientists broadly agree that global warming may threaten the survival of many plant and animal species; but global warming did not kill the Monteverde golden toad, an often cited example of ...