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Costa Rica Expands Coral Gardening to Help Restore Pacific Reefs

Tico Times - June 4, 2026

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Earthquake Shakes Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula

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Costa Rica Targets Landowners Linked to Clandestine Drug Airstrips

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Costa Rica Gets Nonstop Delta Flights From New York

Costa Rica Expands Coral Gardening to Help Restore Pacific Reefs

Tico Times - June 4, 2026

Costa Rica is expanding the use of coral gardening as part of a growing effort to restore damaged marine ecosystems along the country’s coast.The...

Earthquake Shakes Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula

Tico Times - June 4, 2026

A magnitude 5.0 earthquake shook the southern zone of Costa Rica last night rattling communities in Puntarenas area but leaving no reported injuries or...

Costa Rica Targets Landowners Linked to Clandestine Drug Airstrips

Tico Times - June 3, 2026

President Laura Fernández has put the owners of clandestine airstrips on notice. Following the second meeting of her newly formed Fuerza Élite security task...

Costa Rica Gets Nonstop Delta Flights From New York

Tico Times - June 3, 2026

Delta Air Lines is bringing back nonstop service between New York City and Costa Rica's Guanacaste region, filing plans this week to fly from...

Costa Rica Homelessness Has Grown Sharply Over the Past Decade

Tico Times - June 3, 2026

An estimated 7,133 people were living in street conditions in Costa Rica in 2025, more than half of them in the capital, San José...

Canada Becomes One of Costa Rica’s Fastest-Growing Tourism Markets

Tico Times - June 3, 2026

The numbers tell a compelling story. In the first four months of 2026, Costa Rica welcomed 173,349 Canadian tourists arriving by air, a jump...

Costa Rica Camera Traps Capture Rare Predator Hunts and Pregnant Jaguars

Vincent Losasso - June 3, 2026

Sometimes I record something interesting and I think ‘I should share this with the good people who read the Tico Times,’ but whatever it...

Costa Rica Grants US Extradition of ‘Macho Coca’ With Safeguards

Tico Times - June 3, 2026

An appeals court in San José has ordered the deferred extradition to the United States of Gilbert Hernán Bell Fernández, the Costa Rican businessman...