Environment

By Elizabeth Mann*Photos Copyright Elizabeth Mann 2009This is a Hover fly I discovered resting on my Passion vine plant. Hover Flies are common throughout the world and can be found on every continent except Antarctica. In America they are...

ALPHARETTA, Ga., -- Neenah Paper (NYSE: NP) today announced that it has partnered with Friends of the Osa and the Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin to help reforest a conservation property in Costa Rica's Osa Peninsula, one of the most biologically...

By: Lance HarrellAnne Slaughter Andrew has been nominated by US President Obama to head the U.S Embassy in Costa Rica.Andrew, a graduate of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., received her law degree from the Indiana School of Law and...

For years, scientists were confident about one uniform trait of the world's 40,000 spider species: They were meat-eaters.So you can imagine the eureka moment when Brandeis senior lecturer Eric Olson realized a jumping spider he found in Costa Rica...

Puerto jiménez, COSTA RICA–Paris Hilton learned the hard way: Kinkajous just don't make good pets. Paris's kink "Baby Luv" lost BFF status when it bit her on the arm.You'd think that lesson would be obvious, and yet ... those...

Inaugurated the first phase of wind farm in Guanacaste which began operating 30 of the 55 turbines that make up the wind farm. For year-end planning to finalize the work and complete the nominal power of 50MW.Also, the Instituto...

Few seem willing to address the issue openly, but one of the toughest issues to address when delegates gather in Copenhagen in December for the global conference on climate change will be governance. Many developing nations attending have stressed...

The beetle, named Canthidium (Eucanthidium) darwini, was discovered in a remote and unexplored UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Talamanca Mountains as part of a Natural History Museum led project.It was found on one of 7 expeditions to the...

By Shane BrennanImagine a 12-day excursion down to Costa Rica where you could find not only beautiful beaches, but also college credit awaiting your arrival.This is the vision of three University students heading the Entrepreneurial Renewable Energy Project, a...

In Costa Rica, coffee growers have been forced to plant at higher and higher altitudes in recent years; this fall's crop in Columbia is expected to be down substantially due to heavy rainfall. July's harvest was down by nearly...