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UNA Study: Bureacracy Inhibits Fight against Poverty

An Universidad Nacional (UNA) study found that Costa Rica’s state bureaucracy works against the government’s attempt to fight poverty. The study, by the School of...

Presidential Summit Scheduled for Next Week

The region’s Presidents will descend upon San José Dec. 16 for a summit of the Central American Integration System (SICA). Three days of technical...

Strong Winds Whip Through Central Valley

Unusually strong gusts of wind as fast as 70 kilometers per hour lashed through the Central Valley Monday and Tuesday. Winds this speed are...

Activist Appeals Ban on Gay, Bisexual Blood Donors

The Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court (Sala IV) this week accepted a lawsuit arguing that a 16-year-old decree that prohibits homosexual and bisexual...

What is the Thermal Dome?

According to Cindy Fernández, a marine biologist with conservation group MarViva, Costa Rica’s thermal convection dome is an underprotected and generally overlooked natural phenomenon...

Fundación EPIC Hopes to Inspire Children to Save the Oceans

When Cuban-American businessman Eduardo Acosta finally made it to Isla del Coco after three days of violent seasickness, he staggered through the water and...

Fundraiser Nets $6,000 for Southern Conservation

Between bottles of fine Californian wine and a five-course gourmet meal, those who attended a Nov. 17 fundraiser dinner at the Club Union in...

Weather Causes Losses For Rice Industry

Droughts in some parts of the country and heavy rains in others have hit rice farmers hard this year and led to the loss...

Nature Advocate Mourned

Joseph Andrew Tosi, Jr., a U.S.-born geographer and ecologist known for defending Costa Rica’s natural areas, passed away Saturday in his home, east of...

Menchú Gives New CATIE Class Her Blessing

Indigenous rights leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Rigoberta Menchú was probably preaching to the choir this week when she told graduates at a...

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