Environment
Sea Sponges: Key Biological Organisms in Combating the Climate Crisis
A group of Spanish researchers, from the Center for Advanced Studies in Blanes (CEAB-CSIC), found that sea sponges retain about 48 million tons of silicon per year in the oceans, which contributes to mitigating the greenhouse effect and global...
Environment
Puerto Viejo Community Rejects Construction of a Berth on the Marine Platform
The Costa Rican Tourism Institute (ICT) has awarded the company NÁUTICA JJ S.A. the construction of a 75-meter long berth on the marine platform of Puerto Viejo, Limón, a project valued at ¢ 415 million. Local tourism and environmental...
Environment
School in Platanar de San Carlos Evacuated Due to Fumigation in Nearby Pineapple Plantation
In Platanar de Florencia de San Carlos, 21 students, their teachers, and even the principal of "La Ceiba" school were transferred to the local medical center and to the San Carlos Hospital. The "Bella Vista" pineapple company allegedly fumigated...
Environment
Environmentalists Celebrate Expiration of the Last Trawling License in Costa Rica
Last Friday, August 16th, 2019, the last license for semi-industrial trawling shrimp fishing granted in the country, which generated satisfaction in the environmental sector, expired. The permission given by the Costa Rican Institute of Fisheries and Aquaculture (Incopesca), was...
Environment
Pre-Conference on Climate Change Will Talk About Moratorium on the Pineapple Expansion
The United Nations (UN) has pointed to agribusiness as responsible for aggravating the Climate Crisis, mainly due to the impacts resulting from the change in land use, that is, deforestation.Meanwhile, in Costa Rica, the environmental crime product of the...
Environment
Green Initiative Proposes Reforesting the GAM to Combat Climate Change
Not long ago, San José was a wild city. Interwoven with the novelty of urban and natural green, the rich biodiversity is quickly being lost, experts warn."Biodiver-City" is an initiative that through the reforestation and protection of the biological...
Culture & Lifestyle
High Vibrational Living and Why You Need To Consider It
High vibrational living!? You may have heard this buzz word around the water cooler lately and wondered to yourself, what does it mean? Google, Siri help define this.As one begins to find a quest to define high vibrational living,...
Environment
Volunteers Will Collect Waste and Reforest the Shore of Arenal Lake
A group of volunteers from San Carlos organizations plan to carry out a campaign of waste cleaning and reforestation of some sectors of Arenal Lake, in La Fortuna de San Carlos.That activity will be done next Saturday, August 24th,...
Environment
GENFORES Contributes to the Genetic Improvement of Tropical Species
The Tecnológico de Costa Rica (TEC), through its School of Forest Engineering, is committed to the conservation and development of forest genetic resources. And one way is with Genfores (GEN = Genetics FORES = Forest), a project that consists...
Environment
All Costa Rica United for the National March in Favor of the Enviroment
This Sunday, August 18, a national march for the environment will be held for the first time in Costa Rica to raise public awareness. This initiative is being constituted by multiple organizations in the country.The main protagonists of this...
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Remains of Two Shipwrecks Found Off Costa Rica’s Caribbean Coast Are Danish Slave Ships
The remains of two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica, previously thought to be pirate ships, have...