Estimates from the Health Ministry state that people throw nearly 300 tons of garbage in Costa Rica's streets, sewers, vacant properties and rivers every day.
Sea Shepherd's "low profile" campaign to help rescue sea turtles in Jacó recently got nixed by the Costa Rican government when it turned out the conservation group was working without permits.
September is probably the best month to see majestic humpback whales with their babies in the shallow waters of Bahía Ballena off the Pacific coast town of Uvita.
With the start of the new legislative session last week, the government has resumed a battle in the environmental commission over a controversial shrimp trawling bill.
Tech firm ImagineXYZ won the Costa Rica Fishackathon 2016 with the idea for a digital remora that would help better track the use of fuel subsidies for fishing boats.
This weekend, San José and more than 40 others cities worldwide will challenge groups of coders and scientists to find solutions to overfishing in the third Fishackathon.
The Costa Rican Fisheries Federation (FECOP) credits an October 2014 governmental decree restricting industrial tuna fishing in Costa Rican waters with what it says are recovering tuna and dolphin populations.
Venezuelan migrants make a “key” economic contribution to the countries where they live, undermining claims that they are merely a burden, according to a...
In San Salvador, a court sentenced environmental lawyer Alejandro Henríquez and community leader José Ángel Pérez to three years in prison on charges of...
Costa Rica’s President Rodrigo Chaves lashed out at opposition lawmakers after Congress rejected a request to strip him of immunity, a step that could...
