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Recycling Plastics in Costa Rica: A Challenge to Be Met
Costa Rica discards 564 tons of plastic daily, which, instead of being used for recycling, are accumulated in landfills or left in the environment. Eugenio Andrevetto, director of Environmental Health for the Ministry of Health, the governing body of...
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Monteverde Cloud Forest Biological Reserve: Private Sanctuary for Biodiversity
The Monteverde Cloud Forest Biological Reserve is a private reserve located in Costa Rica, along the Sierra de Tillarán, between the provinces of Puntarenas and Alajuela. Its name is due to the nearby town of Monteverde, and it was...
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More than 38,000 Disposable Plastic Bottles Will Not Pollute the Sea
From 2 pm on, last August 1st, 2 hydration posts on the route to the Basilica de los Angeles were enabled. This way, Catholic pilgrims refilled their reusable bottle with free water.In this way, 38,311 half-liter disposable plastic bottles...
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Why Costa Rica’s Wealth is Its Amazing Natural Enviroment
Costa Rica is a country nestled in the tropics and bathed by two oceans, is one of the countries with the greatest ecological diversity on the planet and therefore a mecca for tourism. With almost 25% of its surface...
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Have You Been to the Poas Volcano Park Yet? It is Simply Unique!
The Poas Volcano is one of the most spectacular volcanoes in the country and of extraordinary scenic beauty. It has several types of habitat such as the stunted forest, areas without vegetation or sparse vegetation, the area of the...
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Do You Know Why Mosquitoes Always Choose You?
When summer comes, mosquitoes arrive. Nothing ruins a perfect evening than its buzzing, which warns that a mosquito is looking for hot food. There are more than 3,000 species of these insects around the world, enough to spoil us...
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Believe It or Not, Animals Cannot Keep the Pace of Climate Change
Climate change is going too fast for living things. Attempts to adapt occur in all orders of life: with the rise in temperature, there are trees that are occupying spaces increasingly to the north or higher levels of the...
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Current Warming Is the Most Global and Intense in 2,000 Years
There has not been a period as universally warm as the current one in the last 2,000 years. That is the main result of an investigation that has reconstructed the evolution of the average annual temperatures from year 1...
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Costa Rica Exported, for the First Time, Organic Melon and Watermelon to Europe
The quality and freshness of Costa Rican melons and watermelons reached the palate of Europeans but, this time, with an added value that is increasingly consolidated as a trend in international markets: organic products. This first export of organic...
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Why Natural Resources Are an Economic Potencial For Costa Rica
Costa Rica's most important natural resources are productive soil, virgin wilderness, and plentiful water and mineral resources. We are a Central American nation considered one of the countries with the greatest proportional diversity of living organisms on the planet,...
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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...