Environment

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...

The Fuego volcano of Guatemala erupted on Sunday afternoon, leaving at least 31 dead, buried neighborhoods, and ash columns over 6,000 meters high.The National Coordination Office for Disasters (Conred) reported that after the eruption of the volcano, rivers of...

It all began with a group of neighbors who organized themselves through social media. They worried about the amount of trash they saw on the streets, that despite the work done by the Municipality of Tibás, some people were...

Today is World Turtle Day! This annual celebration was created in 2000, by the American Tortoise Rescue group (ATR) and it is now popular around the world. Its purpose is to generate awareness, admiration, and respect, as well as...

Florida Ice and Farm Company (Fifco), through its Florida Bebidas division, became the 1st company to be "Neutral Water" in Central America in 2012, by efficiently using this resource to produce its products.Having this goal fulfilled, although ambitious, is...

Costa Rica is committed to achieving total environmental sustainability by 2021. True to this goal, about 95% of the country's energy needs are covered by renewable sources. Some issues persist, though. The Central American country, like many others around...

Last Wednesday, May 16th, 2018, Costa Rica’s new president Carlos Alvarado announced a ban on the use of fossil fuels, according to Telesur TV news report.During his 2nd official speech, at the “Plaza de la Democracia” in San José,...