Used cooking grease from 30 restaurants at Santa Teresa de Cóbano, one of the most popular beach destinations in Guanacaste, is providing a local police station with biogas for its kitchen.
Costa Rica's first registered case of a child born with microcephaly related to the mosquito-borne Zika virus was reported by health authorities on Thursday.
President Luis Guillermo SolÃs will meet Monday with U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden in Washington D.C. to talk about security, migration and green energy.
The latest approval rating for Costa Rica President Luis Guillermo SolÃs is the lowest of any Costa Rican president in 38 years, according to CID Gallup.
The Society for Conservation Biology created the Jairo Mora Sandoval Award to raise awareness about the sometimes fatal risks that conservationists take to protect the environment.
A strong tremor at 10:07 a.m. on Wednesday shook communities across most of Costa Rica’s Central Valley. Another tremor followed soon after. As of late morning, there were no reports of injuries or property damage.
