Environment

Climate change represents one of the main threats that ecosystems currently face. The páramo is considered one of the most vulnerable in the Neotropics due to the very specific needs in terms of the conditions and resources required by...

We are used to pressing a button to turn the light on or off, but for electricity to reach homes, businesses or industries there is a huge infrastructure behind to illuminate our lives. But the effort is greater when...

No matter how jaded one can be, when the earth shakes, and shakes hard like it did this Sunday at the border between Costa Rica and Panama, will may falter. Topping 6,3 on the old Richter scale this earthquake...

The great Isla del Coco National Park is located in the Pacific Ocean. It was created on June 22nd, 1978. This park is made up of Isla del Coco and other nearby islands and islets.Taking into account the exceptional...

Our delicious coffee has been a beautiful culture for many years. Also, it has been, for almost 2 centuries, the main source of family income and national divisions. The first coffee seeds came from the Caribbean Antilles, between 1776...

After a study carried out recently by Nefertiti Sibaja, a student of biological sciences of the National University of Costa Rica (UNA), serious remains of plastic waste were found in the fish of our coast. It is a circumstance...

The problem of plastics was the inspiration for Costa Rican designers Óscar Hernández and Donato Morales to create the collection they will present on Saturday, May 18th, at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week San José under the Toribio & Donato...

Costa Rica is the best example that in a small piece of land you can hide great wonders, so it is not surprising that our lands are a listed tourist destination. We are famous for our warm beaches, the...

Costa Rica is located in a geographical area of great natural wealth that has caused the different countries are devoted to the protection of their environment. Starting then, the incontestable fact that this is a country in which measures...

After an analysis of the sightings, Gustavo Gutiérrez Espeleta, professor and researcher at the School of Biology of the University of Costa Rica (UCR), determined that all the cases reported so far came from the same areas of the...