Environment

The Central American country is among the 15 finalists of the National Geographic World Legacy Awards. NatGeo gives these to honor the companies, organizations and destinations that lead the way in the best practices on tourism.The Cayuga Collection destination...

Degradation of the product lasts 18 months; plastic lasts 20 years or more. Researchers consider using new material to make new products.Plastic used in the country’s production of bananas would reach a length of approximately thirty-nine (39) times around...

Thousands of foreigners from a wide variety of countries have chosen Costa Rica as the best place to retire.  Certainly the world-class health system, the amazing biodiversity and sheer beauty, the well-designed infrastructure, the special visa application for retirees,...

Even though U.S. President-elect Trump appears to be taking the States on an environmental backslide, other countries are stepping up to protect their own environments and their natural resources. Slovenia, a small eastern European country, has just become the...

Countries all around the world are banning GM foods and products, the pesticides used to grow them, or placing severe restrictions on their use. In fact, people all over the world are organizing mass demonstrations, and resisting the biotech...

All around the world, different countries are considering the question of whether to legalize marijuana for medical purposes, as well as the growing of hemp for industrial uses. There have been any number of reports and studies to gain...

Another first in the field of alternative energies! Germany is getting ready to introduce the very first zero-emission train for passenger transport in the world that is powered by hydrogen. This new technology will be an alternative to diesel...

While most of the news these days is about the recent American election, there was some good news coming out of the United States too. A group of young Americans, aged 9 to 20, have won the right to...

Two Caribbean nations moved to try and protect threatened hammerhead sharks from overfishing under an international trade agreement.Costa Rica and Honduras listing scalloped hammerhead sharks under an appendix to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild...

PUERTO VIEJO DE SARAPIQUÍ, Costa Rica — Something crashed into the water off to one side of our narrow, flat-bottomed boat on the swirling Sarapiquí River.It was a big tree limb that had broken under the weight of two...