A recently released report from theJapanese government revealed that at least120 Taiwanese vessels have conductedshark finning – the butchering of sharks’bodies to remove their...
THE Office of U.S. Foreign DisasterAssistance (OFDA) of the U.S. Agencyfor International Development (USAID)has donated $131,000 worth of specialprotective pants for forest firefighters toCosta...
WITH the goal of improving informationtechnologies in Costa Rica, the Scienceand Technology Ministry has announced itssecond national Web site contest.The best Web site with...
“HARVARD, Stanford, MIT, Columbia...”At the loudness of an averageconversation – between 40-60 decibels –Alvaro Ramos listed the U.S. universitieswhere he plans to apply for...
THE number of people killed on CostaRica’s streets and highways has decreasedby 37% compared to three years ago,according to the daily La Nación.However, the...
EXPERTS had estimated gas emissionsin Costa Rica this year would amountto 80,000 tons of carbon monoxide.However, this year’s emissions mayamount to only 37,700 tons...
LEGISLATIVE Assembly membersprobably won’t approve the proposedEnvironmental Guarantees, submitted byPresident Abel Pacheco to the assembly in2002, before their current term in officeends next year,...
NATURE Air shareholder and naturalizedU.S. citizen Alex E. Khajavi is barredfrom leaving Costa Rica while investigatorsprobe allegations that he defrauded aninvestor in the national...
IN a bid to broaden freedom ofexpression and improve public access toinformation in Costa Rica, a group ofjournalists has created the Press andFreedom of...
