Environment

The Green Climate Fund granted Costa Rica 54.1 million non-reimbursable dollars this week that will go to landowners and indigenous communities that protect forests, and to reinforce forest fire prevention measures in rural areas.The money is granted to Costa...

The Costa Rican Tourism Institute (ICT) and the National Forestry Financing Fund (Fonafifo) have launched a cooperation agreement to mitigate the carbon footprint of tourist travel.Among the main objectives of this association is financing for environmental projects throughout the...

The Government, together with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), launched the project: "Huella del Futuro" (Footprint of the Future), which aims to plant 200,000 trees in the North Zone of the country, in eleven months.According to the Vice...

Cyclone Eta ends its influence in Costa Rica and moves towards Cuba, according to the National Meteorological Institute (IMN). Local factors will maintain rains in the afternoon and evening on Saturday in the Pacific, the Central Valley as well...

Costa Rica will remain today under the indirect effects of Tropical Storm Eta, especially the southern area, where three rivers are already swollen and intense downpours are being felt, so the authorities are asking the population to take maximum...

Tropical Wave 50 is slowly approaching Costa Rica with a high probability of becoming a depression. The National Meteorological Institute (IMN) reported on the afternoon of October 31st that the atmospheric disturbance is located between Haiti and the department...

The earth tremor that surprised a large part of the inhabitants of the Central Valley this Saturday registered a magnitude of 5.4, according to the latest report from Ovsicori-UNA. According to the institution, the movement occurred at 11:01 p.m....

The Payment for Environmental Services (PSA in Spanish) Program received the United Nations Award for Global Climate Action for 2020 this Tuesday 27th, in the category "Financing climate-friendly investments." The PSA is developed by the Forestry Financing Fund (Fonafifo)...

We have very good news for all nature lovers, this past weekend the Ostional Association of Local Guides (AGLO) reported that today one more massive turtle arrival is starting

Technology is always in search of alternatives, of new forms of survival, inventions that represent new options for the satisfaction of our needs based on tools that we find in the environment.Recently, scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst...