Environment

Costa Rica is the Central American country that has an unequaled biodiversity with approximately half a million different species among plants, animals, and landscapes.

Plastic is one of the materials that top the list of major environmental pollutants in Costa Rica.Volunteers and environmentalists have warned about the incorrect disposal of this material, which often ends up being thrown by people to the rivers...

Open-pit mining is an industry that creates very negative environmental, visual, human, and cultural impacts.It is an industrial activity that is carried out by the removal of large quantities of soil and subsoil that are processed mainly with substances...

In recent times, deforestation linked to the logging and burning of trees has produced an abrupt change in our ecosystem, caused by human action. This process has been due to the destruction of forest areas. The phenomenon occurs in...

The bridge over the river is considered one of the favorite destinations for residents and tourists. This wonderful place has a special attraction: the American crocodile, which hides in its waters

Recently, Total Energy To Waste Solutions (TEWS) announced its plans to build a waste to energy plant and a municipal solid waste (MSW) energy park. This park will be the first of its kind in Latin America. In order...

Costa Rica's government issued a directive to prohibit the use of plastic and polystyrene (stereophone) in all public institutions.President Carlos Alvarado and the Minister of Environment and Energy, (MINAE), Carlos Manuel Rodríguez, signed this regulation, which restricts the handling,...

World Environment Day was decreed by the United Nations on December 15th, 1972 and is commemorated on June 5th of each year. Its purpose is to achieve awareness among all the inhabitants of the Earth with respect to the...

Once it dawned on us that plastic pollution might as well be what UN environment chief Erik Solheim called "an ocean Armageddon" in the making, we have been trying everything to stop this bad tide. Enter  Kids Save The...

From way up above, our planet looks like a blue marble. Its name, Earth, is a misnomer indeed. It should be called Aqua or something like that, as the blue color comes from the water that covers more than...