The U.N. conference was held in Costa Rica and brought together policymakers from across Central America to discuss sustainable ways to keep coffee rust, or roya, at bay.
Monica Mercedes Pérez Jiménez of Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica, is the daughter of a Venezuelan dictator and a CIA spy linked to an attempted Castro hit, the JFK assassination and Watergate burglar Frank Sturgis. And then the story gets really strange.
The Pacific provinces of Guanacaste and Puntarenas account for 70 percent of cases of dengue in Costa Rica so far this year, the Public Health Ministry reported. The number of cases of chikungunya in Costa Rica is increasing, the same report noted.
The call for a nationwide strike by public workers’ unions on Monday had only moderate support. But it did lead to the cancellation of at least 86 surgeries at three hospitals.
Your umbrella may soon get a break: Meteorologists say Costa Rica's rainy season should begin to taper off this week, with the last drops expected to fall in early December.
Chuck Norris doesn't sleep, he waits. So, it seems, do crocodiles.
According to a new study published this month in the Journal of Experimental Biology, crocodiles sleep...
A powerful 7.5 magnitude earthquake killed at least 215 people in South Asia Monday, including 12 Afghan girls crushed in a stampede as they fled their collapsing school.
Despite the candidate's large margin of victory, the election was marked by apathy -- only 56 of registered voters cast ballots, according to preliminary results announced Monday.
The Costa Rican airline Sansa is launching its first international service next month with flights to Nicaragua’s Emerald Coast, near the popular destinations of Granada, Ometepe Island and San Juan del Sur.
Costa Rica’s National System of Conservation Areas placed a one-year moratorium on the exportation of hammerhead sharks last Thursday. The moratorium will put Costa Rica in compliance with the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, known as CITES.
