Environment and Wildlife

A criminal complaint alleges impacts on waterways, protected areas and forest cover at a luxury hotel project in Manuel Antonio, including sediment runoff toward Playa La Vaca. The developer disputes the accusations and says it has complied with environmental requirements.

El Niño has turned Guanacaste's rainy season brown. One expat on dry rivers, thirsty wildlife and water rationing at home.

Costa Rica has raised the alert level for communities around Rincón de la Vieja Volcano after scientists detected increased volcanic activity, marking a further...

Free zones drove a 23.4% rise in Costa Rica's foreign direct investment in the first half of 2026, while tourism investment fell 27%.

Costa Rica's Rincón de la Vieja Volcano is showing several changes at the same time, prompting scientists to warn that eruptions could continue and...

El Niño could end Costa Rica's rainy season early. Here is what an 80% September rain shortfall in Guanacaste means for your water and plans.

Over the last few years, I’ve worked my way up to the point where I have enough camera traps monitoring little patches of Costa...

Costa Rica is known around the world for monkeys, sloths, toucans, sea turtles and an enormous variety of plants, but one of the richest...

Playa Blanca remains open despite a court order suspending access to its marine wetland. What SINAC and MINAE decide this week will set the rules.

Garabito's mayor questions how roads and homes were built at Playa Blanca, protected as a marine wetland since 1994.

Rincón de la Vieja volcano continued producing small eruptions and releases of gas today, a day after a moderate eruption sent a plume as...

If you live on Costa Rica's northern Pacific side, your tap may already be running on a schedule. Community water systems in 74 communities...

Five more people have been detained during sea turtle protection operations at Ostional National Wildlife Refuge in Guanacaste, bringing the number of people arrested...

More than 50 small earthquakes struck the area around Irazú Volcano this morning, but seismologists say the activity points to movement along a shallow...