MONTEVERDE, Puntarenas – Climate change is one of the most troubling problems of the decade. It already has caused significant consequences across the globe, and Costa Rica is no exception. The cloud forest…

MONTEVERDE, Puntarenas -- Up the dust-covered trail that overlooks a chain of valleys below, a faint echo hums from the modest, wooden shack where the front door gets easily jammed.…

MONTEVERDE, Puntarenas -- As they race this daunting, 62-kilometer ultramarathon, there's a small stretch where the runners are required to do the most counterintuitive thing imaginable: walk. Participants…

SANTA ELENA, Puntarenas — Ran Smith, 45, of Austin, Texas, has a full head of gray hair but seems way too young to have owned the Pensión…