Environment

Who does not feel proud of the beauty that your country offers? We, Ticos, are not an exception. Actually, anyone is very proud of his land and everything that is enclosed around him in his long walk. And...

Climate change is not a problem of the future; it has been going on for more than a century. A study that combines 3 ring counts with climate models shows that droughts caused by human emissions go back to...

A court in the Ecuadorian province of Pastaza, in the eastern part of the country, on Friday issued a historic ruling in favor of the Waorani indigenous ethnicity, which demanded a halt to the bidding of an oil field in its territory...

A group of researchers from the National University (UNA), the University of Costa Rica (UCR) and the Technological Institute of Costa Rica (TEC) proposed the research project "Factors that Contribute to the Emission of Greenhouse Gases (GHG) in the...

After the successful result of the 1st artificial reef installed in Guanacaste, the Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE) projects, in the medium term, the construction of a megastructure through a framework agreement with the Costa Rican Institute of Ports...

The Rotterdam Convention is an international treaty in the field of the management of hazardous chemicals. According to FAO, the Convention establishes a "rapid alert system" to help countries protect themselves against certain dangerous chemicals that are the subject...

Officers of the Ministry of Environment and Energy (MINAE) have attended last week several fires in the Caño Negro Wildlife Refuge and the National Wildlife Refuge Border Corridor. Some hectares of land have been burned but the fire has...

Diseases, environmental pollution, habitat loss, and climate change point to being the main cause of the decline of these animals, says an article from the University of Costa Rica (UCR).Last February, and according to the UCR, the journal Nature...

Many take it for granted that the Earth cannot surprise them.  They suppose they know everything about it... That is why, they tend to focus on space exploration and discoveries made on other planets, or stars in a broad...

Every country has its characteristic; the richness that makes it special or authentic. In this sense, Costa Rica is very fortunate to have an exceptional treasure: its biodiversity.Within that incomparable biodiversity, is the Thermal Dome, as a wonder of...