A new campaign hopes to pressure a move by President Laura Chinchilla to fire the board of directors of the Costa Rican Fisheries Institute, which is loaded with fishing industry insiders.
The population of the nearly extinct Eastern Pacific green sea turtle will likely be severely affected by the recent mass deaths, according to biologists. Longline fishing and a mass dynamiting are suspected killers.
Climate change, habitat destruction, the illegal pet trade and the spread of a severe and incurable fungus have been killing off amphibian species in...
In its latest progress report on Afghanistan to the U.S. Congress, the Pentagon warned that the 2013 poppy harvest was expected to be "considerably" bigger than the 2012 yield as a result of warmer temperatures early in the season, the drawdown of NATO troops and the high price of poppies.
In a Tico Times interview, Solís said that if elected, he'd fight government corruption in his first 90 days in office and clean up the Public Works and Transport Ministry. His story is "a very Costa Rican" one," he said, but "it will not be [for others] if we keep going down this road."
The camp, which had a heliport, is the second heavily-armed site discovered in the mountains of Costa Rica in the last month, and could be linked to arms and drug traffickers.
