Ascension Island is a tiny dot of green in the tropical ... He would plant trees all over the 859m (2817ft) summit of Green Mountain, Ascension's highest point. Foliage would trap moisture from ...

But luckily, there was never that much interest in digging up Green Mountain. And then time went on and longtime Ascension Island conservation officer Stedson Stroud discovered that the once ...

AT THE top of Green Mountain, the central peak of Ascension Island, there is a small pond, dotted with lilies, shadowed to one side by the fronds of a pandan tree. It is the only open body of fres ...

Probably not,” says Drew Avery, president of the Ascension Island Heritage Society. Avery argues that many island residents have no knowledge that the forested landscape on Green Mountain is not ...

After embarking on a five day boat trip to St. Helena and another three days to Ascension, Larkin finally arrived on the island. When he explored Green Mountain, the vegetation was thick from ...

Between 1847 and 1850, over 300 trees were dispatched from Kew to Ascension Island and planted on the highest peak—optimistically named Green Mountain—with the aim of improving soil and ...

Various radar and radio masts are visible in the lava fields on Ascension Island, with Green Mountain in the background (Getty/iStock) It’s a daunting, inhospitable-looking prospect, accentuated ...

During a routine plant survey, a team from Ascension Island's Conservation Department decided to explore an intimidating knife-edge ridge running down the wild southern slopes of Green Mountain ...

Over a thousand kilometres out in the mid-Atlantic, rare rains begin to fall on the volcanic island of Ascension. At the same time, crabs scramble out of their burrows on Green Mountain ...

Ascension Island is a tiny dot of green in the tropical ... He would plant trees all over the 859m (2817ft) summit of Green Mountain, Ascension's highest point. Foliage would trap moisture from ...

Ascension Island is a tiny dot of green in the tropical ... He would plant trees all over the 859m (2817ft) summit of Green Mountain, Ascension's highest point. Foliage would trap moisture from ...

Ascension Island is a tiny dot of green in the tropical ... He would plant trees all over the 859m (2817ft) summit of Green Mountain, Ascension's highest point. Foliage would trap moisture from ...