Environment

The Life Cycle of A Hover Fly

By Elizabeth Mann *Photos Copyright Elizabeth Mann 2009 This 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...

Neenah Paper to Help Reforest Osa Peninsula

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...

Good news for the Costa Rican Environment

By: Lance Harrell Anne 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...

A Vegetarian Among Meat-eating Spiders

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...

Animals Find Refuge in Costa Rican Rainforest Heaven

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...

Wind Power in Costa Rica

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...

A Goal for Copenhagen

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...

Beetle from Costa Rica named after Charles Darwin

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...

Costa Rica houses new energy program

By Shane Brennan Imagine 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...

Environmental changes and investing?

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...
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Costa Rican Crew First to Film Predatory Behavior of Newly Discovered Cat in Bolivia

SAN JOSÉ / LA PAZ — A Costa Rica-based documentary team from Botanica Films has made history by becoming...